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Living is about capturing the essence of things. I go through my life every day with a vial, a vial wherein can be found precious essential oils of every kind! The priceless, fragrant oils that are the essence of my experiences, my thoughts. I walk inside a different realm from everybody else, in that I am existing in the essence of things; every time there is reason to smile, I hold out my glass vial and capture that drop of oil, that essence, and then I smile. And that is why I have smiled, and so you and I may be smiling at the same time but I am smiling because of that one drop of cherished, treasured oil that I have extracted. When I write, I find no need to memorize an idea, a plot, a sequence of things: no. I must only capture the essence of a feeling or a thought and once I have inhaled that aroma, I know that I have what I need. ↗


— C. JoyBell C.


#essence-of-things #essential-oils #experiences #fragrance #inspirational-life

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors ↗


— Jorge Luis Borges


#writers-quotes

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#agent #been #brand #collection #editors

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#books #i #i write #lot #orphans

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#believes #bestowed #books #characters #free

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#cartridge #draft #few #final #final draft

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. ↗


— Paula Abdul


#been #choreography #i #idol #jobs






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