“To sing, to laugh, to dream,
To walk in my own way, and be alone,
Free, with an eye to see things as they are,
A voice that means manhood ~ to cock my hat
Where I choose ~ At a word, at a Yes, a No,
To fight ~ or write. To travel any road
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne ~
Never to make a line I have not heard
In my own heart; yet, with all modesty
To say: My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own.
So, when I win some triumph, by some chance,
Render no share to Caesar ~ in a word,
I am too proud to be a parasite,
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or, like the oak, sheltering multitudes ~
I stand, not high it may be ~
But, I stand alone!”
From the ‘No Thank You’ speech in Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
“You know you’re a writer when you are not writing with pen to paper or with fingers to keys, you are writing twenty-four /seven in your brain because everything around you becomes a story.”
Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle
There’s a credit crunch not a creative crunch
LOVE this! I want to post it up at the office.
““…publishers chase heat just like TV networks chase heat. Y’know, if a small-town lawyer show suddenly becomes a break-out hit series…small town are suddenly in, big cities are out.”
He wasn’t aware that “white guy detectives set in LA” were out when he wrote one of them (“The Monkey’s Raincoat”). Everybody told him to forget it, but “fortunately everyone was wrong. That’s why I tell aspiring writers never—never—chase heat. You must write what you love.”
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“Refusing to listen to someone’s opinion doesn’t accomplish anything. You may not agree entirely with their suggestions, but every comment they make is (most likely) an honest one, and will resonate with at least a portion of the general population. To quote James D. Macdonald (writer and instructor for the Viable Paradise writer’s workshop): “If someone tells you something is wrong with your work, they’re almost certainly right. If they tell you how to fix it, they’re almost certainly wrong.”
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