Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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It is the tale, not he who tells it.

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

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I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

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We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

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