Jan. 24, 2006 - Encouragement for Writers...
Here is a wonderful little quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald Mary Jo Tate was kind enough to post on her blog. Being a writer, I thought it was especially encouraging! I thought I'd share it with you here... Enjoy!
“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter—as indissolubly as if they were conceived together. Let me preach again for a moment: I mean that what you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought”
(20 October 1936; Life in Letters, pp. 313-314).
“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter—as indissolubly as if they were conceived together. Let me preach again for a moment: I mean that what you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought”
(20 October 1936; Life in Letters, pp. 313-314).
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Jan. 24, 2006 - Greetings!
Posted by WritingTips
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Glad you like the quote!
Mary Jo Tate
