Carol Bly - The Passionate, Accurate Story (1990)

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The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation — not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

Carol Bly

Your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.

Carol Bly

The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

Carol Bly

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about — plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

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