[MD] Writing

[gav]

hey all,
i want to share with you these little nuggets:

"these novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or
autobiographies - captivating books, if only a man
knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences
and how to record truth truly"

Ralph Waldo Emerson (the opening quote to tropic of
cancer by Henry Miller)


"the truly great writer does not want to write: he
wants the world to be a place in which he can live the
life of the imagination. The first quivering word he
puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.
The process of putting down words is equivalent to
giving oneself a narcotic."

Miller himself in Sexus.



 


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