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Quote by Eric Burns

“It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.”

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Eric Burns is an American author born on August 29, 1945. His works span across various fields including history, politics, and biography, known for his in-depth research and vivid narrative style. more

“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”

Writing Wells War Form Novel Written Expression Expectations Response Observation Conception Conform

Author:Geoff Dyer

“I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.”

Writing Stills Stories Flower Sentences

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."”

Writing Stills Left Numbers Sea Ready Boat Edits

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.”

Writing Interesting Very Interesting Verbs

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”

Writing Inspiration Percent Fiction Writing Elimination Brevity

Author:Louise Brooks

“Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.”

Thinking Writing Art Ideas Sometimes Matter Creativity Magic Findings Allowing

Author:Maya Lin

“Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!”

Writing Reader Tools Breathe Fabulous Punctuation

Author:Nicola Morgan

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

Writing Kind Carrie Performers Skating Good Writing

Book:The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.”

Writing Character Running Certain Gone Bed Excitement Traps

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.”

Writing Book Shows Fiction Influence Lessons Ego Repeats Life Lesson Acquaintance Consuming Influential Monstrous Truest Constrain

Book:Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)

Source: Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)

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