| Author | Message | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6937 Registered: 08-2003 |
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~ Isaac Asimov "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." ~ T S Eliot "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers had it." ~ Ernest Hemingway "To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." ~ Truman Capote "The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies." ~ William Faulkner "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you." ~ Stephen King "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." W B Yeats I really loved King's quote. So true for those out there who can't find a reason to read anyone's work but their own. Love, e Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal | ||
| Christopher T George
Senior Member Username: chrisgeorge Post Number: 6967 Registered: 12-2004 |
Hi E The Stephen King quote is similar to the advice that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to his daughter Scottie when she was thinking of becoming a writer -- that you have to read good literature in order to be able to write good literature. Ernest Hemingway said the same in Ernest Hemingway on Writing available in paperback. All the best Chris Editor, Desert Moon Review http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com Co-Editor, Loch Raven Review http://www.lochravenreview.net http://chrisgeorge.netpublish.net/ | ||
| LJ Cohen
Moderator Username: ljc Post Number: 10573 Registered: 07-2002 |
""You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." ~ Isaac Asimov " So true, E. A timely message. I've been doing too much wallowing in self-pity and not enough submitting. Today, I submitted 3 short stories to 3 magazines, one to Fantasy and Science Fiction, one to Asimov's Science Fiction, and one to the InterGalactic Medicine Show. If any of them are returned to me, I'll turn around and send it out again to another market. The stories aren't doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive. xo ljc Once in a Blue Muse Blog LJCohen | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6941 Registered: 08-2003 |
Chris seems the pros know that the river of inspiration runs deep. Thanks for the added trivia on this. Didn't know about Scottie! Lisa glad it was timely. I posted this for my own inspiration too. Well done on sending out all those submissions! I have to send out a big batch but I don't think I can do much until I come back in town mid-January. Well maybe I can discipline myself over the weekend to organize and submit. You've inspired me. xo e Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 5121 Registered: 05-2006 |
Don't forget to accidentally enclose a $20 bill with each submission. For Ploughshares enclose a Grant. For Poetry or Paris Review, a Franklin. Derf even consciousness, a pastiche of recycled cans | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6942 Registered: 08-2003 |
How about a shoe? Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Moderator Username: garydawg Post Number: 26319 Registered: 07-2001 |
Poetry is therefore I am. either that or an old poet into a froen pond craaack Smiles. Gary Celebrate Walt with Gary: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm | ||
| Emusing
Senior Member Username: emusing Post Number: 6945 Registered: 08-2003 |
yes gar--po with or without the bells and whistles.. Word Walker Press; Moonday Poetry; Kyoto Journal | ||
| Kathy Paupore
Moderator Username: kathy Post Number: 10303 Registered: 12-2003 |
E, my fav quotes the Hemingway one, and of course the King one, I think I jotted that one down somewhere myself. Kathy You're invited to: Wild Flowers Free verse in not, of course, free.--Mary Oliver |
