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Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages. ↗


— Jennifer Murgia


#angel #star #storytelling #writing #storytelling

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#dialogue #writing #paris

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this. ↗


— Paul Auster


#writing #solitude

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. ↗


— Laura Kreitzer


#grammar #writing #ya #grammar

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent. ↗


— Val Kovalin


#writing-craft #writing-process #grammar

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. ↗


— Patrick Rothfuss


#writing #apocalypse

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children. ↗


— Colson Whitehead


#internet #technology #writing #apocalypse

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment. ↗


— Brian Krans


#solace #writing #self-discovery

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. ↗


— J. Michael Strazynski


#humor #j-michael-strazynski #story #writing #funny

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. ↗


— China Miéville


#humor #writing #humor






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