Quotes - Lawrence Schoen (lawrencemschoen) (Blue Bell, PA) Showing 1-30 of 106

#1

“Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.”
― Lawrence M. Schoen

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#2

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#3

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#4

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: fiction, humor, lying, on-fiction, writing

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#5

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#6

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

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#7

“Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.”
― Jacques Barzun

tags: writer-s-block, writing

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#8

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
― robert heinlein

tags: writing

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#9

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, writing

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#10

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
― Joe Haldeman

tags: adultery, writing

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#11

“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: writing

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#12

“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, The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

tags: funny, tips, writing

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#13

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: writing

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#14

“‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: writing

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#15

“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
― William Carlos Williams

tags: writing

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#16

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: talent, writing

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#17

“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”
― Robert Mykle

tags: books, caves, insanity, lone-wolves, publicity-hounds, quotes, schizophrenic, writers, writing

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#18

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
― Robin McKinley

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#19

“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#20

“The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.”
― David Alejandro Fearnhead

tags: writing

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#21

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

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#22

“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-life

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#23

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell

tags: writer, writing

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#24

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
― Nikki Giovanni

tags: writer, writer-quotes, writing

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#25

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”
― Heywood Broun, Anthony Comstock: Roundsman Of The Lord

tags: books, censorship, writing

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#26

“Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.”
― Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

tags: inspirational, writing, writing-craft

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#27

“I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”
― William Styron

tags: writing

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#28

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: writing, writing-process

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#29

“Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.”
― Katrina Monroe

tags: humor, writing

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#30

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
― CJ Heck

tags: easy-to-read, hard-to-write, writers, writing

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