Pair with this vintage guide to creativity and a modern blueprint for transforming your daily creative routine from mundane to marvelous.
When we make art we can participate actively in discovering who we are, for now, and who we are in the process of becoming, as individuals.
—Reginald Gibbons (via triquarterly)
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath. *sigh* (via austinrwilson)
“If the magic of fiction for the reader is that the chair the reader is sitting on disappears, why then, the magic of writing fiction for the novelist is that the chair, the room, everything vanishes as the novelist finally gets to work.”
Taking paper wherever I go is essentially my security blanket.
NATURE LOVES COURAGE by Terence McKenna
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
—William Trevor (via theparisreview)
The true novelist, poet, musician, or artist is really a discoverer.
—An Anatomy of Inspiration, 1942 (via explore-blog)
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Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
—15 timeless bits of wisdom from Charles Eames, born on June 17, 1907. (via explore-blog)
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