14th July 2016 | for Creatives | artist integrity, writing, creative freedom, Jeanette Winterson |
"Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge ... That's our job."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
"When other novelists unsettle us, we praise them. Yet when our own writing unsettles us, we worry."
"Today, thanks to certain pioneering authors, some great books, and some great movies and TV series, the wall between genre and mainstream fiction has become not a wall, but a river. It can be forded or bridged."
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.)"
"If you write ordinary stuff for long enough, then that's going to become your default mode."
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