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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis

I just did a workshop put on by Jane Friedman, taught by Jessica Strawser on synopsis. In it, Jessica said that one of the reasons a lot of agents don't like prologues is because they’ve read the query and the synopsis, which prompts them to read the pages. Then when they read the opening, it's...

One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. Paddy Chayefsky

“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” Mary Heaton Vorse

It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso

They always come for those who create art, because art sustains the soul of all people, whether they know it or not, just as food sustains the body. And totalitarianism cannot survive where the soul of a people is uncrushed. Tom Hirons

When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you haven’t, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. Edouard Manet

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- Marcel Duchamp said this: it’s art if I say so. He’s the guy who stuck a urinal on the wall and called it ‘Fountain’. And ever since he did that, the art world swivelled on its axis and became a place where apparently...