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It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.


Kristen Lamb


#publishing #wana #we-are-not-alone #writers #writing

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?


Annie Dillard


#reading #understanding #writing #writing-life #beauty

Listen to Me is blood on paper, souls on the page. What courage these young writers have, what generosity. Once again, the girls of WriteGirl challenge us to step into our voices with confidence and grace, and to sing.


Sara Fain


#creative-writing #writegirl #courage

Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136)


Mark David Gerson


#filing #floors #fridges #returning-calls #toilets

After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography. 



Jarod Kintz


#dead #death #ghostwrite #supernatural #death

Going through life has its struggles, but not sharing the trials in a way that engages great communication, is a loss of the physical realities through our everyday senses.


Daniel B. Royer


#communication

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.


Kage Baker


#readers #readers-and-writers #writers #death

Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.


Francis M. Nevins


#cornell-woolrich #doomed #hunted #hysteria #nightmarish

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.


Walter Jon Williams


#depends #how #length #long #takes

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.


John Steinbeck


#writers-on-writing #design






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