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“Until you know who you are you cant write.”
“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to e...”
“Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get...”
“True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul”
“But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it was intended, that no combination of written words is more eloquent than thos...”
“Sevgilim! () Cgara imekten vazgeilebilir mi? Hikye yazmaktan da, krolas, vazgeemiyoruz. te bir mddettir ben de, elimde cgara, adam aryor gibiyim. Ne kadar st ba dzgnler, surat ciddiler, hali azamet...”
“When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or at best, like Clare, "weaving fearful vision" ... A frustrate...”
“In the years when I discoverd the Abb Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten ye...”
“Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, pe...”
“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”
“A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.”
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of writing, have reminded me that it is the commitment...”
“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who ...”
“writing is vulnerable is power is freedom.”
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.”
“A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions,...”
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with...”
“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.”
“He stares now at the three words he has written.They are ridiculous. Writing is ridiculous. A sentence, any sentence, is absurd. Just the idea of it; jam one word up against another, shoulder-to-sh...”
“You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.”
