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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. ↗

— John Green

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Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd. ↗

— James N. Frey

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All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

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Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast. ↗

— Roald Dahl

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People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights. ↗

— China Miéville

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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. ↗

— John Berger

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The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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