“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...in India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...” — John Geddes Copy Share
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share
