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...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...


John Geddes


#writing-advice #writing-advice

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...


John Geddes


#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.


Anne Rice


#pain #pleasure #writing #writing-advice #writing-advice

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.


Don Roff


#finishing #revising #tips #tips-on-writing #torture

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.


May Sarton


#love

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)


Dr. Seuss


#writing #humor

The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars containing perfect nouns. Enough nouns connected one to the other create a verb, and verbs had created everything, had skittered across the face of the void like pebbles across a frozen pond. She had not created a verb herself, but the cherry-wood cabinet in the hall contained book after book, jar after jar, vessel upon vessel, all brown as branches, and she had faith.


Catherynne M. Valente


#lists #words #writing #faith

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.


Christina Westover


#books #censorship #christina-westover #freedom-of-the-press #passion

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.


Cynthia Voigt


#freedom #girl #incest #pen #rape

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out


Michael Ondaatje


#writing #love






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