If You Want To Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
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Table of contents
- Preface to Second Edition
- I. Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say
- II. "Imagination is the Divine Body in every Man" — William Blake
- III. Why a Renaissance nobleman wrote sonnets
- IV. The Imagination works slowly and quietly
- V. "Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires" — William Blake
- VI. "Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive" — de Musset
- VII. Be careless, reckless! Be a lion, be a pirate, when you write
- VIII. Why you are not to be discouraged, annihilated, by rejection slips
- IX. People confuse the human and the Divine ego
- X. Why Women who do too much housework should neglect it for their writing
- XI. Microscopic truthfulness
- XII. Art is infection
- XIII. The third dimension
- XIV. Keep a slovenly, headlong, impulsive, honest diary
- XV. You do not know what is in you — an inexhaustible fountain of ideas
- XVI. On using the Imagination
- XVII. "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" — William Blake
- XVIII. "He whose face gives no light shall never become a star" — William Blake