"As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."
Hemingway
Saturday, March 16, 2013
A writer's job is to understand!
Hemingway - my favourite male author of all time - said,
"As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."
"As a man you know who is right and who is wrong. You have to make decisions and enforce them. As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Oscar Wilde Quote
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty."
Monday, December 31, 2012
Guillaume Apollinaire - A magnificent poet in Paris
The Paris Reivew (Autumn 2012) published a collection of ten poems by Apollinaire. The final lines of Cors De Chasse are:
"Memories
Are hunting horns whose sound dies in the breeze."
I found them incrdibly emotionally charged, they bring forth in my mind so many images, and for me this is the magic of them.
Such and intersting but tragically short life. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/737
"Memories
Are hunting horns whose sound dies in the breeze."
I found them incrdibly emotionally charged, they bring forth in my mind so many images, and for me this is the magic of them.
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| Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) |
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Colette & Cheri
I first discovered the brilliance of French author, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, after seeing a film adaptation of her short story, both titled Cheri.
Here is the trailer staring Michelle Pfeiffer & Kathy Bates; and the short story can be found in a collection of short stories by Colette.
Here is the trailer staring Michelle Pfeiffer & Kathy Bates; and the short story can be found in a collection of short stories by Colette.
Good advice from the master of all life coaches - Napoleon Hill
You are more apt to “rust” out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use.
The most intricate, most powerful machine in the world and the greatest minds will rust away unless they are used. Unless you manage your schedule to permit time for study and learning, it is easy to yield to the temptation to spend your free time in thoughtless, mind-numbing, escapist pastimes.
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The most intricate, most powerful machine in the world and the greatest minds will rust away unless they are used. Unless you manage your schedule to permit time for study and learning, it is easy to yield to the temptation to spend your free time in thoughtless, mind-numbing, escapist pastimes.
For a daily dose of advice for achieving your goals, sign up for Napoleon Hill's thought of the day!
http://www.naphill.org/
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Hemingway Quote
In a letter to Malcolm Cowley in 1945 he wrote:
Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when I don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked afterwards. But never as good while writing. (From Ernest Hemingway On Writing)
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Ernest Hemingway, Paris 1922 -by Man Ray
[i was always puzzled by the “wound”… imagining some risky adventure. Well! Man Ray tells the “adventure” in his book “Self-Portrait”: Hemingway was in the washroom, pulled the cord of the window (mistaking it with the chain of the toilet)… the window broke. Man Ray bandaged and hatted the head and took a picture.]
via CP](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sXcaSfwZRy1RlbUJdHQcocXxh0tjHX9WHGl5KIs2Oxi4ipeSManvJIylPcPyP5I0UiWL6JuJfbN-FXri0Sf4aHxTfvoGkNcFyJP39wAfZP9TtY5FaJnz4a6YzahU_7tSY=s0-d)
Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when I don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked afterwards. But never as good while writing. (From Ernest Hemingway On Writing)
Hemingway in Paris - 1922 - suffering a head injury from a broken window
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