Desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.
What is historical impulse
100
what is it about ____________ that seems to make us really nervous about each other's mental health in a way that other careers kind of don't.
What is creativity/creative ventures
100
It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
What is find a subject you care about
100
losing the ability to produce new work
What is writer's block
100
author of "On Writing"
What is Stephen King
200
words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed.
What is aesthetic enthusiasm
200
___________ ___________ have a reputation for being enormously mentally unstable
What is creative people
200
If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
What is have the guts to cut
200
____________ is a feeling of concern and understanding.
What is sympathy
200
a theory that had developed after the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Whinehouse, etc.
What is The 27 Club
300
Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centered than journalists, though less interested in money.
What is sheer egoism
300
these "people" did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings
What is ancient Greece and ancient Rome
300
All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life.
What is sound like yourself
300
ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses.
What is imagination
300
Shot himself with his favourite shot gun
What is Ernest Hemingway
400
Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after.
What is political purpose
400
"if your work was brilliant you couldn't take all the credit for it, everybody knew that you had this disembodied ____________ who had helped you. If you work bombed, not entireley your fault [either]."
What is genius
400
They have to identify thousands of little marks on paper, and make sense of them immediately.
What is pity the readers
400
the ability to recognize and feel emotions experience by another being (fictional or real)
What is empathy
400
Killed herself by placing her head in the oven
What is Sylvia Plath
500
I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess ___ __________ __________ without knowing something of his early development.
What is a writer's motives
500
During and after the Renaissance, the big idea was "let's put ______ __________ at the centre of the universe."
What is the individual/ human being
500
My teachers wished me to write accurately, always selecting the most effective words, and relating the words to one another
What is say what you mean
500
when you are no longer reading literally but reading figuratively ... you are reading the _________.
What is subtext
500
killed herself by placing rocks in her jacket as she walked into the river