“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”
Quotes by Dwight V. Swain
“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of that outer world we call objective. When we look at a painting, we see a price tag. A trip is logistics more than pleasure. Romance dies in household routine. Yet life without feeling is a sort of death.”
“A story is the record of how somebody deals with danger.”
Dwight V. Swain
Dwight V. Swain was an influential American author and screenwriter, known for his contributions to the genre of fiction writing. Born in Rochester, Michigan, he developed a passion for storytelling t...