A Quote by Raymond Kethledge
I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.
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I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.
No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.
I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.
For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.
I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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