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Unfortunately, these days, 'literary' writing seems to have become synonymous with 'showy' writing, writing that is beautiful but doesn't tell a story. This is a misguided trend. If today's 'literary' writers would look back only one or two hundred years at real literary writers like Dostoyevsky, Poe, Conrad, Melville, they would find momentous stories--not just pretty writing--at the core of almost all of their great works. ↗


— Noah Lukeman


#literary-writing #pretty-writing #beauty

Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver. ↗


— Eudora Welty


#mississippi-authors #mississippi-writers #the-wide-net #change

It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. ↗


— Kate Morton


#history #mystery #writing #change

What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road! ↗


— Mehmet Murat ildan


#change

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? ↗


— George Phillips Bond


#any #authorities #discover #madam #more

The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change? ↗


— Doug Pedersen


#quotes-by-doug-pedersen #tuina-breath #change

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#death #excerpt #favourite-quote #life #novel

Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job. ↗


— Ngaio Marsh


#creative-process #writing #death

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. ↗


— Walter Jon Williams


#bring #broader #contribute #experience #little

You cannot buy our leaders and then sell that to us as freedom." From my new novel, Beyond Southern Africa. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... ↗


— Malik Stan Reaves


#african-literature #freedom






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