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“Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing.”

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Richard North Patterson

Richard North Patterson is a renowned American fiction writer, born on February 22, 1947. His works span a variety of themes including law, politics, and family relationships, and have garnered a wide readership. more

“Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.”

People Ifs Should Writing Trying Book Ideas Hard Enough Care Enjoy Simple Secret Like You Truth Is Publishers Good Book Marketplace Simple Truths

Author:Richard North Patterson

“We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.”

Knows Writing Wonder

Author:Richard Peck

“Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.”

World Want Writing Self Mother This World Expression Communication Diaries Self Expression

Author:Richard Peck

“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

Writing Tears Guts Pockets Overcoat

Author:Charles Peguy

“A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.”

Should Writing Metaphor Obvious Titles Intrigue

Author:Walker Percy

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

Love Heart Children Made Use Shows Happens Secret Lovers Flesh Injury Scar Medal

Book:The Favourite Game

Source: The Favourite Game

“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Writing Mind Bears Fruit Defense Right Words

Author:John Bertram Phillips

“Grammar is the analysis of language.”

Writing Language Analysis Grammar

Book:Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

“No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.”

Way Writing Doe Mankind

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.”

Way Writing Matter Use Imagination Ability Taught Lessons Perception Power Of Imagination

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

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