Theodora Goss Quotes About Writing

• Escribir todo el tiempo. Creo que hay que escribir todos los días, al menos mil palabras al día. Tenemos una extraña idea sobre la escritura: que se puede hacer, y hacer bien, sin mucho esfuerzo. Los bailarines practican todos los días, los músicos practican todos los días, incluso cuando están en la cima de sus carreras, sobre todo entonces. Por alguna razón, no nos tomamos la escritura tan en serio. Pero escribir -escribir maravillosamente- requiere la misma dedicación.

  Theodora Goss

  Dance, Believe, Writing

• Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you’re not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else?

  Theodora Goss

  Writing, Opportunity, Class

• I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more: it's fascinating to put people together and see what happens, how they fall in love and what that means in their lives.

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  Falling In Love, Mean, Writing

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• The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

  Theodora Goss

  Escribir, pensar, historias

• Escribir dos historias [en El espino y la flor] sobre el mismo conjunto de acontecimientos que eran historias completas en sí mismas, pero que también se sumaban a una historia mayor. Mientras las escribía, iba y venía, porque en una de ellas ocurría algo que tenía que reflejarse en la otra. Y, sin embargo, Brendan y Evelyn tenían que percibir el mismo suceso de formas distintas, porque son personas diferentes con sus propias interpretaciones.

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  Escritura, Dos, Personas

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• The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if I could write a story for it. I was so intrigued! I immediately knew that it had to be a love story told from the points of view of the two main characters. Right away, I started working on a proposal. And once I had my main characters, Brendan and Evelyn, it was as though they started telling me their stories.

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  Libro, Personaje, Escritura

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• I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.

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  Libro, Escritura, Voz

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• Me decía a mí misma que durmiera más. Lo crea o no, escribí el libro mientras terminaba mi doctorado en literatura inglesa. Fue maravilloso evadirme de la erudición literaria escribiendo esta mítica historia de amor. Creo que gran parte de mi amor por los libros y la erudición se refleja en The Thorn and the Blossom.

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  Book, Believe, Sleep

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• Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was long after he had become one of the great masters, a writer everyone looks up to and reveres. As artists, I don't think we ever see ourselves as done. We always think we're at the beginning . . .

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!

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  Arte, Libro, Medio

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• Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing. You have to learn how to write the next story all over again. And she's absolutely right.

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  Writing, Stories, Next

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• The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

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  Writing, Romance, Appeals

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• Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

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  Art, Writing, Dancer

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• If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

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  Writing, Firsts, Wonderful

• Estoy acostumbrado a escribir cuentos de hadas que pueden ser algo oscuros, y la verdad es que en los cuentos de hadas, los romances siempre son problemáticos. Puede que acaben felices para siempre, pero a alguien le meten en un horno o tiene sangre en el zapato.

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  Writing, Dark, Shoes

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• My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has done, because I don't think anyone has written a book quite like this one. And look at how beautiful it is!

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  Hermoso, Libro, Escritura

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• Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you read, you are limiting yourself. You need to get a good overall sense of English literary history, so you can write out of that knowledge.

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  Escritura, Necesidades, Literatura

• I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

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  Writing, Wanted, Humans

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