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#craft

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I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-life #writing-process #life

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. ↗


— Django Wylie


#jane-austen #moby-dick #pride-and-prejudice #truth #wordplay

forests of monsterous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannible devils; mound like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion...insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation...Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies. ↗


— H.P. Lovecraft


#the-lurking-fear #men

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie ↗


— Carl Henegan


#writing-craft #movies

Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself. ↗


— Mercedes Lackey


#witchcraft #witches #religion

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. ↗


— Flannery O'Connor


#writing-craft

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗


— Bernard Cornwell


#readers-and-writers #writing-craft #writing-craft

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on. ↗


— Jane Asher


#done #enjoy #enormously #experts #fun

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas. ↗


— Linus Pauling


#writing-craft #writing-craft

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. ↗


— Thomas Harris


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