How to Write a Memoir or Novel According to Shakespeare – And 4 Other Famous Artists
It’s fashionable these days to turn to the artists and writers we know and love for advice or wisdom – How to Live like Proust, how navigate the complexities of marriage and morality according to George Eliot*, how to grow up through the novels of Jane Austen. What can the writers and artists who have endured tell us about writing? Below are five tips from some of the best: 1. Isak Dinesen: Don’t wait for the perfect frame of mind to begin writing “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, without faith and without hope…suddenly the work will find itself.–” Isak Dinesen. When I searched on-line for the above quote just now, I found that the words “without faith and without hope” had been deleted, as though they detracted from what Dinesen is saying. But to me, those words are what make the quote … Read on