Thursday, May 10, 2007

CREATIVE WRITING QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

"Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."

Sholem Asch*

Sounds like common sense to me. Nothing to say is either a bad case of writers’ block or a good case for going out and experiencing something to write about.

*The novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, was born to a poor family, one of ten surviving children, in Kutno, Poland in 1880 and died in London in 1957. He finally went to live in Israel in 1956. He was one of the most controversial, prolific and widely-known writers in Yiddish literature. Some of his most controversial writing explores the common heritage of Christianity and Judaism. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1909, becoming an American citizen in 1920 and much of his writing deals with this and the wider experiences of Jews in eastern Europe.

By Sholem Asch

The Mother, Three Cities (1933), Salvation (1934), The War Goes On (1936), and Three Novels (1938), The War Goes On, The Nazarene, The Apostle (1943), Mary (1949), and The Prophet (1953).

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