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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

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Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within. ↗

— Patricia Hickman

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Just write it! ↗

— Ted Bell

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I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

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A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity. ↗

— Stephen King

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You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise. ↗

— Juliet C. Obodo

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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. ↗

— Philip Sidney

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If one can, anyone can. If two can, you can, too! ↗

— Nancy I. Sanders

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For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. ↗

— Martin Cosgrove

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