5 for Friday: 4 Favorite Quotes and a Story
As I wrap up my time as MFA Confidential, I wanted to focus
on my most favorite writing quotes for this installment of 5 for Friday. These
are the good ones, those ones you tape on your mirror or desk, or scrawl on a slip
of paper and place in front of you as you work. I’ve also included a “story” by
Brian Andreas. I posted it once before, way back in September. It remains one
of my favorite quotes/stories about writing and life. Find more of Brian
Andreas’ inspiring stories and drawings here. Happy Friday, All! I’ll see you
next week for my final few posts.
“You
must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
~Ray
Bradbury
*
And by
the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to
do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is
self-doubt.
~Sylvia
Plath
*
“If we
had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of
courage.”
-Cynthia
Ozick
*
“Write
in recollection and amazement for yourself.”
-Jack
Kerouac
*
And a
story by artist and storyteller Brian Andreas:
Nothing
More
“Often, I write all day long with white
ink
on white paper, late into the night, until it
is all I can do to feel the letters curving to
earth from the tip of the pen &
then, I fall
asleep. Dreaming of running, or maybe
driving in a car the color of water & I
wake
the next day remembering nothing & I
gather the stack of paper & a pen of
black
on the desk in front of me & the words
begin to dance over the page like long
legged insects across a still lake & the
words in white whisper behind &
underneath the new day. If there is any
secret to this life I live, this is it:
the sound
of what cannot be seen sings within
everything that can. & there is
nothing
more to it than that.”
-Brian Andreas
