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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

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

— Jodi Picoult

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap. ↗

— S.M. Blooding

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Shut up, Ray. ↗

— Henry Kuttner

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I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? ↗

— Bill Willingham

#fantasy-fiction #unwritten-preface #fantasy-fiction

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#fiction #writing #fantasy-fiction

I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process. ↗

— Rosaleen Love

#food

The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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