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The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#shakespeare #writers #writing #art

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices. We can't be anything we want to be. We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it. Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#identity #writing #art

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing #writing-advice #art

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#genius #talent #tseliot #writing #dreams

Sometimes in order for your dream to come true, it is you who need to take the initiative. ↗

— Henriette Klause

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The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar. ↗

— Jim Lewis

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‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues. ↗

— Dipesh Nepal

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