Rhythm, repetition, making patterns--these are not only important devices for shaping the strange and abstract instrument/object we call a poem or a story, but they are craved as well because of our primordial need for reassurance, the sense of security we get from moving over the known. A mystery doesn't lose power in revisiting. Writing is not just to know, it is also to console. We need to be reminded that we are part of the obscure rhythm of birth and decade. It is the humming that matters. Breyten Breytenbach
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
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Warren Adler
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook–a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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Virginia Woolf
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
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Glen Hirshberg
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
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Troye Sivan
More Quotes By Breyten Breytenbach
Even ivory towers need central heating.
History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.
The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.
Rhythm, repetition, making patterns--these are not only important devices for shaping the strange and abstract instrument/object we call a poem or a story, but they are craved as well because of our primordial need for reassurance, the sense of security we get from moving over...
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
