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That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. “All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. I let them tell me what the biggest challenge they’re they’re facing is, what they’re most afraid of, and I make them face that challenge in my story.” Susan Sontag, Brainpickings I give my characters something to tackle.

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It’s refreshing, like running a few miles, the way you feel when you finish.Ī novel is like life: it’s a series of knots, and the quality of your life is determined by how you unravel them. I lose all sense of my own reality the I’m writing a novel. I am consumed by the characters I’m writing about.

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“I write to shed dead skin and to explore why people do the things that we do to each other and to ourselves. A familiar riddle posed since youth, withdrawing from play, comrades and the valley of love, girded with words, a beat outside.īecause we cannot simply live.” Terry McMillan, Why We Write Why do I write? My finger, as a stylus, traces the question in the blank air. To offer proof, through a scramble of words, that God exists. What is the dream? To write something fine, that would be better than I am, and that would justify my trials and indiscretions. “What is the task? To compose a work that communicates on several levels, as in a parable, devoid of the stain of cleverness. And we have to hone our craft so that the form in which we hold our poems, our songs in attracts the best.” Patti Smith, Devotion

We have to put ourselves in the way of it, and get out of the way of ourselves. And I still say, after writing poetry for all this time, and now music, that ultimately humans have a small hand in it. We are technicians here on Earth, but also co-creators. “I agree with Gide that most of what is created is beyond us, is from that source of utter creation, the Creator, or God. And I want my male readers to understand what it is to be a woman-to find the sympathy.” I just want my women readers to find the strength. I’m not trying to create models for other women to imitate.

In all my books there are strong women who have to overcome incredible obstacles to have their own destiny. Why a particular story? I don’t know when I begin. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

These brilliant women writers reveal their love of the written word (or spoken or sung word) and the immense power of language-what we write now can transform our present world and for generations to come. For my most recent bout of questioning the eternal riddle of why we write, I chose these seven brilliant women writers for clarification of the writer’s role in society the magnificence of literature and the joy of creating-aware that we may not be cognizant of the source of our creativity, but to respect the process and the muse. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.For bibliophiles and Book Rioters, books and their creators are our go-to when we need advice and inspiration, motivation and understanding. What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know.

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