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“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
― H.L. Mencken |
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“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
― Marianne Moore |
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“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”
― Charles Baxter |
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“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”
― William Zinsser |
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“The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.”
― Gustave Flaubert |
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“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
― George Bernard Shaw |
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“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
― David Hare |
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“For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce.
... how to set yourself spinning?”
― Annie Dillard |
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“A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile”
― Lytton Strachey |
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“The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, there’s the writer who can’t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, there’s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him”
― Thomas Ligotti |
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“i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.”
― Sanober Khan |
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“Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.”
― J.P. Donleavy |
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“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising… and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.”
― Neil Gaiman |
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Post time 31-1-2018 01:48 PM
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