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"this is reminding me that fantasy can be fun ! also way too long wth" — 4 hours, 59 min ago
"this is reminding me that fantasy can be fun ! also way too long wth" — 4 hours, 59 min ago
“That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“Ultimately you write alone. And ultimately you and you alone can judge your work. The judgment that a work is complete—this is what I meant to do, and I stand by it—can come only from the writer, and it can be made rightly only by a writer who’s learned to read her own work. Group criticism is great training for self-criticism. But until quite recently no writer had that training, and yet they learned what they needed. They learned it by doing it.”
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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