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Kim

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Kim’s Quotes

“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”
― Alfred Lansing

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-humor, writing-life

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“Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.”
― Terry Pratchett

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“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: language, lord-of-the-rings, worldbuilding

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: be-terse, writing-advice

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“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”
― Warren Adler

tags: writing-advice, writing-life, writing-process

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