Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary in ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. —Boris Pasternak



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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. —Calvin & Hobbs

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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. —Neil Gaiman

Which is one reason writing for a living can be very confusing.



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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. —James Baldwin


This brought tears to my eyes. I have nothing to add. Except maybe to recommend you read it again.





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