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I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. ↗

— Pam Houston

#story #themes #unexpected #writing #life

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art #inspiration #writing #art

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#advice #compiler #designing #for the people #general

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#enough #feels #find #his #look

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i can #most #people #recorded #say

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #art

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option. ↗

— Court Young

#writing #nature

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#writing #life