Re: how to get published
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:41:03 +1000
rev. bob pigeon quoted:
> "the writer's only true responsibility is to his art. He will be
completely
> ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much
he
> must get rid of it. He has no peace until then."
>
> -- William Faulkner
Ah, I could regale you with dozens of my favourite quotes on the topic of
writing:
`Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to
everything. It's the steaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to
build up, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let
nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of
life'
-- Enid Bagnold
`I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is
essentially a desire for self exposure and is masochistic. Like one of
those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the
street'
-- James Jones
and my old favourite:
`Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread
its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would
die if you were forbidden to write'
-- Rainer Marie Rilke.
Ahh. I feel much better about my vocation now.
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com