10th July 2016 | for Creatives | creative process, artist integrity, writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg |
"There is no way to write. There's only the way you find to write."
"I want to be able to express all the currents that flow inside me. To have that agility to reach a state of otherness and yet express my own internal truth at the same time."
"Know what you're trying to make; know it; practice it. Just write, and write seriously, and don't worry about genre too much. Create something brand new."
"Write the poem you would never show anyone."
"The reader will forgive you anything except lying."
"It's this funny headspace you get in, where you're acting, really. .... You literally pretend you are this person, and you go about your life as if you are this person. And so, when people will ask me, 'Did you like this character?' I don't know. Because I'm so far inside them, I can't judge them at all. You're behaving as if you are this person."
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