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“Love hurts.Think back over romance novels youve loved or the genre-defining books that drive our industry. The most unforgettable stories and characters spring from crushing opposition. What we rem...”
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
“Goals are dreams with a deadline.”
“The next time you have the urge to complain, stop and ask yourself what it is you truly want. Do you just want to complain or do you want to improve your situation? Somewhere within each complaint ...”
“Understand when you listen to your intuition and commit to a life path that is unique to your desires, youre likely choosing the path less traveled. This means there are going to be substantial obs...”
“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.Remember if you never act, you will never know for sure and you will be left standing in the same spot foreve...”
“Arithmetic is the death of story.”
“And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.”
“Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.”
“Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality or to introduce a new kind of love, a new ki...”
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, its understanding the necessity of both; its engaging. Its being all in.”
“I dont want to save the world, I just want to inspire it.”
“Life is like a rugby ball. You never know where it bounces next.”
“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which...”
“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, dont read big Tolkienesque fantasies Tolkien didnt read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside...”
“Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.”
“Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.”
“Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.”
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”
“Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if hes far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he cant af...”
