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Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward ↗

— J.R. Ward

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There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. ↗

— Terri Windling

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Write the unpublishable...and then publish it. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment. But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Try as we might, we write what we write ↗

— bg Thurston

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal. ↗

— Sally Odgers

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Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong. ↗

— Kevis Hendrickson

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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ↗

— Craig Raine

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When I write an story, I start with one true thing – a memory, an image, a sensation – then I try to say one more true thing, then another, and another. By the time I reach the end – hopefully – I've told the truth all the way through. It's harder than it sounds, harder than it ought to be. But still worth trying. ↗

— David Surface

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