"Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned. Fiction lies somewhere in between. I usually start intuitively but eventually I need to stop and consider structure, or research, or both."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Achy Obejas

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?”
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”

Source : "Iain Banks: the final interview". Interview with Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.
“Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.”
“Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.”
“You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.”
“An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.”

Source : Roger DAVIS, Roger Williams (2009). “On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams”, p.87, Harvard University Press
“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.”
“It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.”

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