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Quote by Holbrook Jackson

“Great books conserve time.”

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Holbrook Jackson, born on December 31, 1874, and died in 1948, was an accomplished journalist. His career spanned various fields, including literature, politics, and social commentary. more

“When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"”

Writing Asks Simple Novel Dare

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.”

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Author:Edward Abbey

“Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”

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Author:Martin Amis

“The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.”

Writing Lessons

Author:R. L. Stine

“This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.”

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Author:Robert B. Parker

“Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.”

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Author:Crawford Kilian

“When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.”

Writing Stories Hands

Author:T. Jefferson Parker

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