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To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ↗

— Michelle Richmond

#degree #write #writer #college

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#semi-colons #writing #college

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#word-choice #writing #choice

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. ↗

— William Goldman

#doubts #self-doubt #writing #doubt

There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all. ↗

— Jo Linsdell

#book-marketing #books #writers #niche

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. ↗

— Antoni Gaudi

#nature #written #nature

How become a writer? Naturally. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#nature

...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and let nature take its course. A few will be impressed by your creation, others will be disgusted. Plus, no one will enjoy your success and achievement in producing it as much as you did. ↗

— H.O. Charles

#publishing #writing #nature