The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
Interpretation
Writers must persist in their craft regardless of circumstances.
This quote emphasizes the essential responsibility of a writer to continue their work no matter the challenges or obstacles they face. It underscores the commitment required to sustain a creative practice and highlights the importance of perseverance in the literary world.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a writers' workshop to encourage participants.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.
Music is the brandy of the damned.
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
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