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Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man. ↗


— E.B. White


#writing-advice

The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices... but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all. ↗


— Toba Beta


#free-will #the-best-option

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’. There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#writing-advice #inspirational

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer. ↗


— R.A. Salvatore


#perseverance #writing #perseverance

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. ↗


— William Faulkner


#writing-advice #vanity

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. ↗


— Jodi Picoult


#writing-advice #writing-process #writing-process

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable. ↗


— Veronica Roth


#eyeliner #pretty #tris #care

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on. ↗


— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#knitting #humor

Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress. ↗


— Anna Godbersen


#boredom #flirting #boredom

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty






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