Braucht / Needs Dauerhaft / Lasting Faktisch / Factual Fiktiv / Fictional Kapazität / Capacity Kreativ / Creative Leisten / Achieve Literatur / Literature Perzeptiv / Perceptive Schriftsteller / Writer Stärke / Strength Vision
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
