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Quote by Tom Clancy

“I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.”

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Tom Clancy (April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013) was an American author best known for his military-themed novels. His works often involve politics, military, and espionage, and have been beloved by readers worldwide. more

“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”

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Author:Lawrence Block

“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“Beware of advice-even this.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.”

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Author:R. L. Stine

“I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”

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Author:Margaret Laurence

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