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“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

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“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.”

“It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“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

“Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

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Book:The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

Source: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

“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

“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

“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

“How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.”

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Author:Donald Murray

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.”

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Book:Little Wilson and Big God

Source: Little Wilson and Big God

“I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.”

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Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

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Author:Richard Miller

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.”

“Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.”

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Author:Pete Hamill

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.”

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Book:Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

Source: Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.”

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Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

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