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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
-Robert Rodriguez
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Anyone Who Can Only Write About Themselves

Robert Rodriguez
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. when the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.
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If you want to be a writer, write. write and write and write. if you stop, start again. save everything that you write. if you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. write. writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
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I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "irish writer," "canadian writer," "woman writer," "lesbian writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about canada or ireland, you know.
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I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. i do believe that a lot of them are sincere. i do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. but, i think the majority of them have experienced something.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. on the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. if, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. you might say, "read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. or, "don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. if you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "there must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.
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