Forum: Writers


Subject: What is a writer?

dialyn opened this issue on Nov 13, 2002 ยท 20 posts


dialyn posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 6:38 AM

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." - Frank Capra (1897-1991) US director "Creativity -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." - William Plomer (1903-1973) S. African-British man of letters "Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." - Rollo May (1909-1994) US psychoanalyst "The Courage to Create," 1975 Bikermouse quoted the following quote on another forum. I posted in as a separate quote but deleted it to add to this thread because it seems appropriate here as well, if you didn't see it: "The objective in writing is, to reveal. It is not to teach, not to advertise, not to see, not even to communicate (for that needs two) but to reveal, which needs no other than the man himself." -William Carlos Williams