Quotes by Writing I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer. Alison Hawthorne Deming psychicsemotionalwriting I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners. Alison Hawthorne Deming teachingwritingyears I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going. Alison Hawthorne Deming anxietywritinglong What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds. Alison Hawthorne Deming disciplineteachingwriting I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the culture, make us more reflective, make us more empathetic, make us feel our connectedness in other ways. Alison Hawthorne Deming writingculturethinking Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence. Alison Hawthorne Deming kindwritingthinking I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice. Alison Hawthorne Deming compassionwritingthinking When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history. Alison Hawthorne Deming bearing-witnessdifferentwriting I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. Alison McGhee differentchallengeswriting Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word. Alison McGhee katetogetherwriting I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends. Alison McGhee writingbookthinking We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together. Alison McGhee writingfunbook I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. Alison McGhee two-friendsplaywriting For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would. Alissa Nutting sleepwritingyears My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category. Alissa Nutting tuesdays-with-morriewritingfall Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing. Alissa Nutting vegaswritingfall It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character. Alissa Nutting cheerwritingbook I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. Alissa Nutting academiawritingpeople Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore. Alistair Beaton writinggivingthinking Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth. Alistair Begg heartwritingfather«4142434445464748495051»
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