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Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

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Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”

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Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

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Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”

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Book:Conversations with Capote

Source: Conversations with Capote

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

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Author:Robert Southey

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

“If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.”

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Author:David Brin

“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.”

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Book:I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.”

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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.”

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Author:Alice Munro

“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”

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Book:the elements of style

Source: the elements of style

“Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.”

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Author:Nancy Kress

“Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.”

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Author:Anne McCaffrey

“All the information you need can be given in dialogue.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.”

“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.”

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Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.”

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Author:J. P. Donleavy

“Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.”

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Author:Stanley Schmidt

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”

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Author:Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”

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Author:Kingsley Amis

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.”

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Book:Johnsonian miscellanies

Source: Johnsonian miscellanies

“The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.”

“If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.”

“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”

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Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”

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Author:George Orwell

“I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.”

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Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

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