"Find what gave you emotion; what the..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).”
“I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.”
“The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.”
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“When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'”
“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.”
“It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.”