Dwight V. Swain quotes

“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”
-- Dwight V. Swain

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, p.13, University of Oklahoma Press

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“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”
-- Dwight V. Swain

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Creating Characters: How to Build Story People”, p.1, University of Oklahoma Press

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“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”

“Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.”

“I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.”

“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.”

“When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.”

“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”

“No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.”

“I'm excited by any food that's prepared by someone who's proud of what they're doing, who puts a personal imprint on food.”

Source : "Q& A with Anthony Bourdain on food porn, Libya and his move to CNN". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.delcotimes.com. May 20, 2013.

“So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.”

“My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.”