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    Stephen King
    “Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: bad-writing, fiction, good-writing, writing
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    Nikki Giovanni
    “I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
    ― Nikki Giovanni
    tags: writing
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    Walter Mosley
    “The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
    ― Walter Mosley
    tags: writing
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    Roman Payne
    “Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”
    ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
    tags: affairs, fathers, husbands, liars, lovers, lying, relations, relationships, roman, roman-payne, sex, women-writers, writing
    152 likes

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    Orson Scott Card
    “You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: art, writers, writing
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    Raymond Chandler
    “A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
    tags: writing
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  • #7
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Inspiration comes of working every day.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: inspirational, writing
    106 likes

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  • #8
    Alan Dean Foster
    “The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
    ― Alan Dean Foster
    tags: procrastination, writing
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    Henry Miller
    “One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: writing
    78 likes

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    Tim O'Brien
    “A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
    ― Tim O'Brien
    tags: fiction, lies, on-fiction, truth, writing
    122 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: autism, memoir, nonfiction, writing
    159 likes

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    Don Roff
    “Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”
    ― Don Roff
    tags: audience, humor, torture, writing
    91 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: rationality, rushdie, writing
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  • #14
    Stephen King
    “The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: writing
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: humor, writing
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    Stephen King
    “I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Besa Kosova
    “Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ”
    ― Besa Kosova
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  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
    82 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Krista Ritchie
    “Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.”
    ― Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You
    tags: addicted, college-romance, loren-hale, love-story, writing
    130 likes

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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
    tags: art, creativity, writing
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."

    -Anne Shirley”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: books, friends, humor, reading, writing
    130 likes

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  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: music, writing
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

    (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: characters, creative-process, state-of-mind, writing
    118 likes

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    Dave Barry
    “Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: columnist, writing
    74 likes

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  • #26
    Veronica Roth
    “Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace
    it.”
    ― Veronica Roth
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: cleverness, writing
    56 likes

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  • #28
    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.”
    ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
    tags: inspirational, wisdom, writing
    67 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “[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
    tags: creative-process, dialogue, writing
    64 likes

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  • #30
    Denis Diderot
    “All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: integrity, journalism, writing
    149 likes



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