Writing

Writing is an utmost fundamental, and a necessity in communication and expression. It translates between physical and mental states, in such a diverse artform - stocked with an abundance of brilliant colours and brushes at hand, thick and thin. To think, twenty six symbols that are the English language are able to create such wonderous works, never running out of words. I, myself, am an inexperienced writer, and so my ability is lacking practicality. With this, below is a series of various quotes by experienced writers; wisdom with writing. 


 E. B. White - "The process of writing is magical -- there are times
 when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across
 thin air, and it's absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it's a process 
of putting one word after another."

Italo Calvino - "To write well about the elegant world you have to know 
it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not
 whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position 
regarding it."

Walter Benjamin - "The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea,
the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself."

Anais Nin - "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great
terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances 
them."

Kurt Vonnegut - "The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is
 that you do not know what is interesting and what is not."

Mary Gordon - "However thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our
invention, we inhabit a corporeal world."

E.B.White - "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."

Ponder over these quotes, absorb them into your own chemistry. Though this may not be a lengthy article, it pays to keep things precise. My intention with these various quotes is to not inspire, but to strip you of your hesitation. Inspiration is not required to write, it is a mere concept. A pencil is enough, combined with a focused mind. Do not write for anyone else, write for yourself. Write not to impress anyone at all, and only for the sake of writing. 

P.S. I call the above structure a 'quote burger', as it has quotes in the centre, and personal remarks on either end. Would you like fries with that? 

- Andre