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“A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.”
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
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“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Penryn and the End of Days Re-Read
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We’re re-reading Susan Ee's Penryn and the End of Days series! In the build-up to the publication of END OF DAYS in May, we’ll be taking a look back a ...more
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