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I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.


Graham Greene


#books #doctor-fischer-of-geneva #graham-greene #love #love

If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.


Heather Dowell


#humorous-quotations #in-love #love

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE


Mark Twain


#preface #reading #warning #motivational

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant.


Mary Lascelles


#social-world #storytelling #writers #art

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)


John Gardner


#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.


Aberjhani


#books #creativity #determination #dreams #endurance

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

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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