Maxioms by Brian Aldiss
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and read more
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's read more
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
