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is a constant annulling process, central to active forgetfulness... at the center of artistic creation, 'divine ability'.

Central to Nietzsche's view of artistic creation is his notion of active forgetfulness. He calls the ability to forget a 'divine ability,' and, in his . . . For him, writing is a constant annulling process. In The Gay Science, he asks 'But why do you write'

is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

is a form of therapy enabling one to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Writing is a form of therapy... sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. (Henry Graham Greene)

is a horrible, exhausting struggle (like a long bout with some painful illness) which one would never undertake if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. George Orwell

is a hostile act in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It's hostile to try to wrench around someone else's mind that way.

INTERVIEWER: You have said that writing is a hostile act... I have always wanted to ask you why. . . . JOAN DIDION: It's hostile in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It's hostile to try to wrench around someone else's mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad... nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. Joan Didion

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift. (Antonya Nelson)

is a kind of word-carpentry which, like any other kind of carpentry, requires that you join your sentences smoothly.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. Anatole France

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