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."
— Hilton Als
for Creatives | creating isn't easy, writing, the creative life, Hilton Als
"The two most important things I've learned about writing are humility and emotional truth. If you present the emotional truth of a situation, particularly in an essay or a poem, it transcends genre."
— Hilton Als
for Creatives | artist integrity, writing, genre, Hilton Als
"If it's disorderly, whatever the even of situation was, then you should represent it that way. If it had order, you should represent it that way."
— Hilton Als
"I think Rimbaud said it best when he said if you're telling the truth, you bring back the shape of the thing... but I think what he was talking about was, really, bringing something like emotional honesty to whatever you're writing. If you do that, then the shape of the piece, of the writing, becomes so much more of a pleasure, because you're really excavating something that's unique to you, which is the emotional truth of the situation."
— Hilton Als
for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, artist's voice, Hilton Als, Arthur Rimbaud