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“Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how...
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“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard: “I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” – See more at:...
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You don’t have time? Make that time. This is essential. Only you can make and defend the time you need for your work. Nobody is going to give it to you. I know, I know, it’s horribly hard. Writing is...
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“I only write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” — W.S. MaughamFiled under: A quote Tagged: #Monday quote, #On Writing, #W.S. Maugham
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia PlathFiled under:...
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Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work...
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“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the...
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Just do it. Now! Writing requires butt-in-seat time. Art requires easel time. Roger Ebert said, “The muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don’t wait for her. Start alone.” - Roger...
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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.” - C. J. CherryhFiled under: A quote Tagged: #C.J. Cherryh, #Monday quote, #On Writing
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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” —Ernest HemingwayFiled under: A quote Tagged: #Ernest Hemingway, #Monday quote, #On Writing
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