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#1

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

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#2

“The fictional world you create as an author is the real world to the characters who inhabit it.”
― John Coon

tags: writing-craft, writing-quotes

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#3

“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.”
― Richard Rhodes

tags: writing-advice

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#4

“You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. ”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: dragons, maps

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#5

“I believe that one is more successful in expressing oneself through written words rather than speaking. While speaking, one misses the details. But writing? Writing is different altogether. It gives us ample time to contemplate what we wish to communicate. As a result, the flow of our thoughts seems much more coherent.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

tags: language, life, speaking, spoken-words, thoughtful, thoughtful-words, verbal, words, writing, writing-quotes

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#6

“On Hayao Miyazaki

I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

"We have a word for that in Japanese," he said, "It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally."

Is that like the "pillow words" that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

"I don't think it's like the "pillow word." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, but if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”
― Roger Ebert

tags: film-director, writing-advice

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#7

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#8

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."

[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]”
― Will Self

tags: creative-process, writing, writing-advice

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#9

“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: creative-process, creativity, writing, writing-advice, writing-process

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#11

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing, writing-advice

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#11

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: writing-advice, writing-life

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#12

“So be wise. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would. Now go, and make interesting mistakes. Make Interesting. Mistakes. Make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

tags: art, art-matters, make-good-art, writing-advice

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#13

“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.”
― Ernest Hemingway, On Writing

tags: writing-advice

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#15

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
― Núria Añó

tags: about-books, about-life, about-me, about-writing, bookquotes, books, lonely-people, loser, loser-quotes, losers, misunderstood, misunderstood-fights, motivation, motivational, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quotations, powerful, strong, women-writers, writers, writers-and-their-work, writers-and-writing, writers-inspiration, writers-life, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes, writers-world, writing, writing-books, writing-life, writing-process, writing-process-creative, writing-process-creative-process, writing-quotes

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#15

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage.”
― Shatrujeet Nath

tags: aspiring-authors, aspiring-writers, on-writing-a-book, writing-advice, writing-process

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#16

“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.”
― Jerry Stahl

tags: creative-writing, destroy, insight, passion, skills, writing, writing-advice, writing-material

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#17

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.”
― Donna Goddard

tags: author-quotes, fiction-writers, fiction-writing-process, good-writing, human-nature, human-nature-quotes, spiritual-practice, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, spiritual-writing, spirituality, stories, stories-from-the-heart, writing, writing-about-human-nature, writing-process, writing-quotes

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#18

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#19

“I don't write to praise or please anyone, but I write to express and communicate my thoughts to the universe.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

tags: accomplish-quotes, author-quotes, communication-quotes, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes, mentality-quotes, praise-quotes, reading-quotes, universe-quotes, writing-quotes

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#20

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.”
― Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

tags: reading, reading-habits, vocabulary, vocabulary-building, writing, writing-advice, writing-craft

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#21

“Talent is as common as table salt. The difference between a talented person and a successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing-quotes

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#22

“The first book I wrote changed my life.
I have since learned that books have a tendency to do that. You start
writing them because you think you know enough about the subject, and
quickly and yourself undergoing a drastic education in every aspect of
yourself and the topic in order to bring forth the book.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Creatrix: She Who Makes

tags: authors, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-life, writing-process, writing-quotes

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#23

“The time of my thought is my own to spend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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#24

“It's so much fun to write. Sometimes great books are left out for lack of promotion, while unnecessary books are loved because of their popularity. Common people always follow the majority.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

tags: author-quotes, books-quotes, inspirational-quotes, life-quotes, majority-quotes, mentality-quotes, popularity-quotes, reading-quotes, thought-quotes, writing-quotes

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#25

“I sincerely believe that only those who are financially free can produce great works of art. Poor artists are too bothered about money and fame, which hampers their creativity. An artist shouldn’t have any financial pressure. One can’t create something poetic if commercial success is all one is concerned about.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

tags: art, artists, commercialism, creativity, entertainment-industry, poetic, works-of-art, writers, writers-on-writing, writing-quotes

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#26

“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

tags: writing-quotes

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#27

“Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.”
― Don Roff

tags: freedom-of-thought, liberating, nanowrimo, narrative, narrative-writing, novel, novel-writing, viewpoint, writing-inspiration, writing-quotes

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#28

“What writing is? – Telepathy, of course.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: writing-inspiration, writing-process, writing-quotes

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#29

“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: create, writer

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#30

“I am a writer. I am in the business of healing people through my writing. I want to heal people with my words. My slogan is: writing to heal millions of people.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

tags: encouragement-quotes, inspirational-quotes, intent-quotes, life-purpose-quotes, mitta-xinindlu, motivational-quotes, writers-on-writing, writing-purpose-quotes, writing-quotes

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