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Category: Reflections

Really Seeing…

Orson Wells

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

—Orson Welles

Posted on August 18, 2021August 14, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags creativityLeave a comment on Really Seeing…

Clear as a Country Creek

Truman Capote
Truman Capote

I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

—Truman Capote

Posted on August 17, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Truman Capote, WritingLeave a comment on Clear as a Country Creek

A Quality of Redemption

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly

I’m a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there’s a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

– Michael Connelly

Posted on August 16, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Art, Michael Connelly, WritingLeave a comment on A Quality of Redemption

The Well

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on August 15, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on The Well

Nothing to it…

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on August 14, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Nothing to it…

Simply the best…

Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on August 13, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Simply the best…

Hemingway’s Rules

Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

—Ernest Hemingway

Posted on August 12, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Hemingway’s Rules

Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…

Ernest hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety nine pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.

—Ernest Hemingway

Posted on August 11, 2021August 7, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…

Looking into the Abyss

Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. 

– Michael Connelly

Posted on August 10, 2021August 1, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Michael Connelly, WritingLeave a comment on Looking into the Abyss

You don’t need demons

Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”

― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

Posted on August 9, 2021August 1, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, Reflections, WritingTags Evil, Tess Gerritsen, WritingLeave a comment on You don’t need demons

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