Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

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Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

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Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

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When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

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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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

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Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

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and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it

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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.

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Good fiction creates its own reality.

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