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Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. ↗


— Cameron Conaway


#life #stories #writing #change

A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is and you go with that. Left to our own devices, a writer would endlessly fiddle with a book, changing little thing after little thing. ↗


— Kimberly Pauley


#change

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past. ↗


— J.L. Carr


#business

I was born to travel and write verse. ↗


— Theophile Gautier


#i #i was born #travel #verse #write

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever. ↗


— Patricia MacLachlan


#change

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. ↗


— Eric J. Hobsbawm


#writing #change

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world. ↗


— Guy Kawasaki


#writing #writing-process #change

Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver. ↗


— Eudora Welty


#mississippi-authors #mississippi-writers #the-wide-net #change

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. ↗


— Anne Enright


#disease #inspiration #writing #change

It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. ↗


— Kate Morton


#history #mystery #writing #change






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