Pay the Writer
22nd July 2016 | for Creatives | artist integrity, videos, film, writing, documentary, protect the art, value the art, Harlan Ellison |
Harlan Ellison - "Pay the Writer"
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your original why
"Staying creative for life means remembering (sometimes on a daily basis) your original why: why you write, why writing matters to you. It means holding onto what's personal and even private in the pursuit, and holding close what's most meaningful."
no compromise
"As an artist, you want as many people to see your work as possible with no compromise. .... I don't want to .... have it watered down, and follow a soap opera, and have all the edges filed down and have someone interfere. .... Delivering the exact thing that I made ... that's so important to me, you know, that's, I said, the ideal of the most beautiful and purest thing. And it's how little it can be ruined from your brain to the observer. And that's the way you do everything yourself, really, because, you know, I've probably only produced and directed to protect my writing, the idea, you know?"
give yourself permission
"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."
a writer is emotionally brave
"I think the word is fearless because once writers start editing how they do what they do or what they're writing about, I think you've already lost what you need to be doing. So I think being a writer is emotionally brave, and if you can't go there, maybe you're not ready to do it yet."
take heed
"I want anyone who has ever had an idea shot down by a supposed authority to take heed. I have to say, my gasted is totally flabbered that anyone would dissuade a student from pursuing something based on an idea alone."