spend your life learning
7th July 2016 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, writing, author David Mitchell, never stop LEARNING |
"Writing is something you spend your life learning how to do and you never quite get there, you never finish learning about writing, that's why it's such a great job."
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Own your existence
"Claim your life, own your existence. Write in spite of whatever conflict you face."
read outside of your comfort zone
"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies—Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."
explore your consciousness
"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."
stop that voice
"Every artist in the world fights this battle every day. To go to a scary place that makes some other part of you say: What are you doing? No. Just no. No. No. The only way to create a work of literary art is to stop that voice. Your total attention needs to be on the sensual flow of experience from the unconscious."
