12th July 2016 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, writing, the creative life, Hilton Als |
"It's a really hard thing to do, day after day, to explore your consciousness and to try to represent it as fully as possible."
"Claim your life, own your existence. Write in spite of whatever conflict you face."
"Quite frankly, I'm tired of writers complaining how tough it all is. Man up. It's a wonderful and privileged way to live your life. Embracing difficulty is just part of it all."
"There is so much more to 'being a writer' than putting words to paper. The process that a writer endures is wholly intensive, an all-consuming effort that can define one's day, week, month, year."
"When work does not go well, no life is more miserable than that of a writer. But when it goes go well, when the illumination has focused a work so that it goes limpidly and flows, there is no gladness like it."
"You have to give yourself permission, say to yourself, 'I'm not foolish for wanting this.' All writers have to fight the same fight. I have to write 2,000 words today, no matter what. That's my discipline, and that's me protecting the work."
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