Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
Praise the sea, on shore remain.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.