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If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".


James M. Cain


#writing-craft #writing-craft

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.


Pablo Neruda


#writing-craft

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.


Elizabeth Sims


#books #writing #writing-craft #writing-craft

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)


John Irving


#craft #novels #victims #writing #writing-craft

She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home and safe. But words to him no longer fit right in her her mouth.Words which belonged in his ownership were no longer hers to give. Silence was the only acceptable state her heart would grant. He would never know what he missed, because she refused to be heard in his presence. All the words he could have had, all the phrases he might have danced with. The smiles which would have been imprinted upon his heart, would never be. And his lips would never be able to reply to the words she could not say.


Coco J. Ginger


#jamie-weise #love-hurts #lovers #passion #love

Not all that is mortal is useless.


Cassandra Clare


#infernal-devices #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare


Erica Jong


#writing-craft

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.


Katherine Anne Porter


#writing #writing-craft

Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.


James J. Kilpatrick


#writing #writing-craft #writing-craft

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.


Robert McKee


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