I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.
- Yuriy Tarnawsky
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? - Yuriy Tarnawsky
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more…
I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.
How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.
Imagination is so much more fertile than life. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
Imagination is so much more fertile than life.
I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I th… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I th…
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surround… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surround…
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