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Author:Anton Chekhov

“If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.”

Ifs Want Writing Book Ideas Hard Successful Convince Editors

Author:Kate Cary

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Inspirational Writing Fantasy Fantasy Books

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“If you want to write a love song, you need to not try to write it for a particular person in a particular situation. It needs to be vague, otherwise you're going to fall into trap after trap of trying to rhyme with somebody's name. Keep it vague.”

Writing Trying Song Fall Situation Rhyme

Author:Stephin Merritt

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken." [on Twitter, July 17, 2012]”

Honesty Reviews Twitter

Author:Scott Lynch

“If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.”

Ifs Want Writing Mind Novel Divine

Author:Julia Cameron

“If you want to write a practical history of the Middle Ages, and to trace the real reasons of the things that actually happened, investigate first the history of the money; and then of the quarrels for office and territory.”

Politics Money History Middle Ages

Author:John Ruskin

Source: The Eagle's Nest

“If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand." But that's not the point. You don't have to like a character to like a book. Most of the time, people would misjudge and say, "I didn't like the book." No, you didn't like the character. That doesn't make it any less interesting of a book. In fact, to me, it makes it more interesting.”

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Author:Tama Janowitz

“If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.”

People Ifs Want Writing Levels Talking Details End Times Spend Time Examining Talking To Someone

Author:Dave Eggers

“If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.”

Ifs Want Writing Angry Mail

Author:Tim Gunn

“If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.”

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Author:Lawrence Block

Source: Writing the Novel from Plot to Print

“If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.”

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Author:Anne Beatts

“If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.”

Ifs Want Writing Diaries Blogs

Author:James Patterson

“If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.”

Ifs Want Writing Copies

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best excuse for not writing. "Why should I get writer's block?" asked the mischievous Roger Simon. "My father never got truck driver's block.”

Writing Excuses Writer S Block

Author:Roy Peter Clark

Source: Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

Writing Misattributed

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.”

Writing Interesting Mature

Author:Leigh Newman

“If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Heart Moving Given Blood Poet Reader Veins Blood Transfusion

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say.”

Writing

Author:Ann Patchett

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.”

“If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.”

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Author:Arthur Smith

“If you want to write something permanent in your mind, do something crazy!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Next Novel Risk Great Novels

Author:John Tesh

“If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.”

Ifs World Want Writing Real Life Is Night Streets Bed Details Real Life Clock Shirts Pushing Every Night Dishes Exhausted T Shirt Dropping Alarms Folding Alarm Clocks Strollers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.”

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Author:K.D. Green

“If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.”

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Author:Andre Kertesz

“If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.”

Ifs Want Writing Pierce Letting You Go Splinters

Author:Megan McDonald

“If you want to write, keep cats.”

Ifs Want Writing Cat Funny Cat

Author:Aldous Huxley

“If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.”

Ifs Want Writing Made Might Decision Former Decent Someday Categories

Author:Ben Fountain

“If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.”

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Author:Robert B. Parker

“If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.”

Ifs Want Writing Willing Disturbed

Author:Kate Green

“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Honest Journal

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Honest Fairs Unfair Journal

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.”

Ifs Want Writing Enough Talent

Author:Jane Yolen

“If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.”

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Author:Cynthia Lewis

“If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.”

Ifs Want I Can Share Teaching Succeed Refrain

Author:Tim Gunn

“If you want today to be different from yesterday, then you must do today what you did not do yesterday.”

Inspirational Motivational Change Your Life

Author:Pamela Storch

“If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.”

Ifs Want Fit Holes

Author:Bill Buxton

“If you want too much explaining from him, you're probably not tuned enough into your own sensuality. 90% of your communication with your man isn't supposed to be verbal, it's supposed to be sensual.”

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Author:Lebo Grand

“If you want too much space for yourself, then don't get too close to people.”

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Author:Garima Soni - words world

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

“If you want true freedom, find your path to ecstasy.”

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Author:Lebo Grand

“If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.”

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Author:Amy Webb

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

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Author:Kurt Lewin

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.”

Ifs World Want Wells Said Light Lying Truth Is Breaths Train Rounds Boots Pulling Feathers Well Said Old Proverb

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If you want truth you should begin by giving it.”

Ifs Want Giving Should

Author:Lloyd Alexander

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain

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