12 Quotes by Kevin Focke about writing
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I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.
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Writing is all about tents. Sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent.
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I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider’s perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment’s glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it.
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A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
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When I’m passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.
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In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
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Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.
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It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.
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An artist without an audience is like a jar without jelly. There doesn’t always need to be much jelly in the jar, nevertheless a jar without jelly would feel jealous and empty.
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