Nicholas Trandahl Quotes

#1. I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories.

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#2. I just need to sit, think, write and read.

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#3. I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.

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#4. Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau's Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

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#5. It's my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.

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#6. I'm a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have been of centuries or millenniums.

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#7. Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he's with me. No. More like I am with him.

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#8. I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.

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#9. Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite thing to read.

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#10. In my own book-signings, I find humility. It's always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

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#11. Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long as they're good words.

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#12. Edgar Allan Poe's writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

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#13. Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art, poetry is an essential human art and discussing its genesis, fruition and prose with somebody legitimately interested is intensely rewarding.

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#14. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.

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#15. When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because when it comes to poetry, I let it all spill forth. Any other way of writing prose would be a disservice to the art of poetry.

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