Best Writing Tips Ever
Nov 18, 2009 | Under: Writing
Huffington Post has a rundown of the Best Writing Tips Ever.
Drawn from the poet Allen Ginsburg.
Some of my favorites:
“My writing is a picture of the mind moving.”—Philip Whalen
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
(I am large. I contain multitudes.)”—Walt Whitman
“And being old she put a skin/On everything she said.”—W.B.Yeats
“What’s the face you had before you were born?”—Zen Koan
“I’m going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.”—Chuang Tzu, (Tr. Burton Watson)