{"id":5355,"date":"2019-02-11T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:08:27","slug":"nobel-prize-winners-to-nanowrimo-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvocorp.com\/freelancewriting\/nobel-prize-winners-to-nanowrimo-writers","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize winners to NaNoWriMo writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a person who makes one\u2019s living as a writer, you must know that November isn\u2019t just a month after Halloween, before Christmas, with Thanksgiving in the middle. It is a month of self-sacrifice and dedication, aspirations and hopes, poor eating and a lack of sleep for the sake of a major goal: 50,000 words until 23:59 on November, 30. It is the great holiday of NaNoWriMo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During these four weeks, you are not supposed to spend any minute surfing the web. The Internet is full of revelations by authors who consider themselves great. They are ready to give advice to anyone thoughtless enough to ask. And we prefer you to choose something useful and motivational from the best craftsmen of the pen. That\u2019s why in this article, we decided to gather quotes from those who proved themselves to be great writers by winning a Nobel Prize in literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of you might say that the Nobel Prize is sometimes given as a reaction to the political environment rather than as a recognition of literary talent. It may be so. But it doesn\u2019t mean that there is nothing we can learn from those winners.<\/p>\n

If this is your first NaNoWriMo and you\u2019ve just decided to try yourself in literature, great writers will try to talk you out of it<\/strong><\/p>\n

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But there will be those who will give precise pieces of advice to aspiring newcomers<\/strong><\/p>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cFor fiction, the best age is from thirty-five to forty-five. Your fire is not all used up and you know more. Fiction is slower. For poetry, the best age is from seventeen to twenty-six. Poetry writing is more like a skyrocket with all your fire condensed into one rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cDon\u2019t be \u2018a writer\u2019 but instead be writing. Being \u2018a writer\u2019 means being stagnant. The act of writing shows movement, activity, life. When you stop moving, you\u2019re dead. It\u2019s never too soon to start writing, as soon as you learn to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of them will persuade you to always stay true to yourself<\/h2>\n

Andr\u00e9 Gide<\/b>, awarded in 1947: \u201cWhat another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself\u2014and thus make yourself indispensable.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Gerald Golding<\/b>, awarded in 1983: \u201cIt wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toni Morrison<\/b>, awarded in 1993: \u201cIf there\u2019s a book that you want to read, but it hasn\u2019t been written yet, then you must write it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or at least to write only the truth<\/h2>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cThe real truths come from human hearts. Don\u2019t try to present your ideas to the reader. Instead, try to describe your characters as you see them. Take something from one person you know, something from another, and you yourself create a third person that people can look at and see something they understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eyvind Johnson<\/b>, awarded in 1974: \u201cA writer’s work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

And try to stay simple, especially when you\u2019re writing about difficult things<\/h2>\n

Winston Churchill<\/b>, awarded in 1953: \u201cOut of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albert Camus<\/b>, awarded in 1957: \u201cThose who write clearly have readers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boris Pasternak<\/b>, awarded in 1958: \u201cLiterature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean-Paul Sartre<\/b>, awarded in 1964: \u201cI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will tell you to leave yourself a hook to stay enthusiastic about writing the next day<\/h2>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cThe only rule I have is to quit while it\u2019s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it\u2019s going good. Then it\u2019s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you\u2019ll get into a dead spell, and you have trouble with it. It\u2019s\u2014what\u2019s the saying\u2014leave them while you\u2019re looking good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ernest Hemingway<\/b>, awarded in 1954: \u201cI learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will show you how to create an alive character you will miss and will be eager to meet again<\/h2>\n

Ernest Hemingway<\/b>, awarded in 1954: \u201cWhen writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albert Camus<\/b>, awarded in 1957: \u201cA character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harold Pinter<\/b>, awarded in 2005: \u201cI always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.\u201d<\/p>\n

They say a brilliant reader makes a great writer. And some of them will share their to-read list.<\/h2>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cRead, read, read. Read everything\u2014trash, classics, good and bad; see how they do it. When a carpenter learns his trade, he does so by observing. Read! You\u2019ll absorb it. Write. If it\u2019s good, you\u2019ll find out. If it\u2019s not, throw it out of the window.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/b>, awarded in 1982: \u201cFaulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft\u2014not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dario Fo<\/b>, awarded in 1997: \u201cIt is from Beolco Ruzzante, that I’ve learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Motivation helps only in the short term. For your 50,000 words, they will offer you something more effective: persistence.<\/h2>\n

T.S. Eliot<\/b>, awarded in 1948: \u201cWriting every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill<\/b>, awarded in 1953: \u201cPerfecting your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ernest Hemingway<\/b>, awarded in 1954: \u201cThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick White<\/b>, awarded in 1973: \u201cI continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will explain how to save yourself from chasing goals that are not really yours, by analyzing why you are writing<\/h2>\n

Albert Camus<\/b>, awarded in 1957: \u201cWe must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadine Gordimer<\/b>, awarded in 1991: \u201cWriting is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of them will try to save you from working with your friends and relatives on one piece of writing<\/h2>\n

George Bernard Shaw<\/b>, awarded in 1925: \u201cTwo people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.\u201d<\/p>\n

And many of them will assure you that writing is not about money, houses, yachts, and recognition<\/h2>\n

George Bernard Shaw<\/b>, awarded in 1925: \u201cLiterature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.\u201d<\/p>\n

George Bernard Shaw<\/b>, awarded in 1925: \u201cIf you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cKeep it amateur. You\u2019re not writing for money but for pleasure. It should be fun. And it should be exciting. Maybe not as you write, but after it\u2019s done you should feel an excitement, a passion. That doesn\u2019t mean feeling proud, sitting there gloating over what you\u2019ve done. It means you know you\u2019ve done your best. Next time it\u2019s going to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Faulkner<\/b>, awarded in 1949: \u201cDon\u2019t make writing your work. Get another job so you\u2019ll have money to buy the things you want in life. It doesn\u2019t matter what you do as long as you don\u2019t count on money and a deadline for your writing. You\u2019ll be able to find plenty of time for writing, no matter how much time your job takes. I\u2019ve never met anyone who couldn\u2019t find enough time to write what he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

They will teach you even more with their plays, novels, poems, and articles<\/h2>\n

And we remind you that the National Novel Writing Month is a non-stop marathon and you\u2019ve already spent 7 minutes reading this piece. In the days of sorrow and decay, you will think you will never be among those published authors giving advice. Maybe you\u2019re right. On the other hand, you can never say for sure until you try and finish at least one novel. Get back to it. 50,000 words won\u2019t write themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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