Dissatisfaction is a significant key to quality. “Art,” said the American sculptor John Chamberlain, “is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.” In the midst of dissatisfaction ways are found. Without dissatisfaction it is swiftly possible to fall in love with your own mediocrity. Utter dissatisfaction can be liberating. “If the wine is not good,” said Michelangelo, “then throw it out.
— Dissatisfaction (Robert Genn) - via Communicatrix on Twitter
The job of a writer is to write. Anything else a writer does is entirely on his or her free time and subject to his or her own whim.
— John Scalzi
“Student Project” is a legitimate aesthetic.
I’ve learned that my job is to just sit down and start making the clackity noise. If I make the clackity noise long enough every day, the “writing” seems to take care of itself. On the other hand, if there’s no clackity noise, no writing. No little stories. The stories may be in there, alongside God knows what else, but there’s no way to know. You must make the noise.
— Merlin
Writer’s block is a bourgeois conceit. Just get to work.
— John Darnielle (via cleversimon)
