“A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight … it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it.”
—Annie Dillard (via briankeene)
Posts tagged discipline:
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valéry noted, is work.
—Stanley Kunitz
(Source: journalofanobody)
“I think selfishness in most artists masquerades as a discipline.”
—Norman Dubie, from The Clouds of Magellan, a Santa Fe Literary Center Book (Recursos Press, 1991)
“The most important and hardest thing for any writer to learn is the discipline of sitting down and writing even when you have to spend three days writing bad stuff before the fourth day, when you write something better. If you’ve been away from what you’ve been working on even for a day and a half, you have to put in those three days of bad writing to get to the fourth, or you lose the thread, you lose the rhythm. When you are a young writer, those three days are so unpleasant that you tend to think, ‘I’ll go away until the mood strikes me.’ Well, you’re out of the mood because you’re not sitting there, because you haven’t had that period of trying to push through till the fourth day when the rhythm comes.”
—Joan Didion
Reblog if you actually spent at least two hours today working on your own writing, art, or music.
“The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline—that all art begins and ends with discipline, than any art is first and foremost a craft.”
—Archibald MacLeish
“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” —Roy L. Smith
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