apothegms

This is matociquala's fault, as so many things are. She's listed off writing advice (and the first time I typed that, it lost its prefix, which ended up looking oddly appropriate) which becomes more Zen the longer you look at it.

Which has inspired/provoked me into making a collection of my own, of the things I try to keep in mind about my writing--and about my life, for that matter, since the two are largely contiguous. You'll notice that some of these are not talking about writing, but about love. I think there's not much difference between love and creativity; both insist that you make yourself vulnerable, and both can leave you feeling like you've walked into a coil of barbed wire.

The first two of these are via matociquala her own self. The others are things that had previously lodged in my brain.

( Not everyone loves reading long lists of quotes. I know and accept this. )