Says author Dan Brown: "...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means 'hidden' or 'obscured'. In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdmoctrinal had to be kept hidden or 'occult', and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything 'occult' as evil, and the prejudice survived." 🧵⬇️
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Poet Anne Waldman says: "I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a Time Machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show."
Write your own show; join us for Writing the Occult: Relics on 10 May.
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Stephen King says: "I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea." 🧵⬇️
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William Faulkner on the Importance of Reading
Career Authors
"Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master." --William Faulkner
William Faulkner on the Importance of Reading Quotes We Like…
https://careerauthors.com/william-faulkner-on-the-importance-of-reading/
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. . . I discover that in most of the operations of the mind each American appeals only to the individual effort of his own understanding.
#America is therefore one of the countries where the precepts of Descartes are least studied and are best applied. . . . Everyone shuts himself tightly up within himself and insists upon judging the world from there.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Translated by Phillips Bradley) #politics #history #WritingQuote
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"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
--Annie Proulx
Carl Jung writes: "No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
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Join us on 15 June for Writing the Occult: Connection to Land. Writers, folklorists & academics gather to discuss the ecological side of writing. Full event details at writingtheoccult.carrd.co
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"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." Maya Angelou
Do you do this with your writing? Have you seen this in books? Share a good book that touched your heart, especially if it's one you wrote.
"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
--E.M. Forster
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
--Emily Dickinson
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
--Joan Didion
"The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
--Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"One should use common words to say uncommon things"
--Arthur Schopenhauer
"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."
--Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential."
--Jessamyn West
"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
--Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
--Voltaire
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
--Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
