...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
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...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...
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...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
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...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
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...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
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...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
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...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
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...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...
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...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
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...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...
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...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...
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...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
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