Writing quotes
Quotes that appear on Tuesdays.
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“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” –Meg Cabot, American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults. Best known for The Princess Diaries.
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, (January 1, 1919 – January
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. – Anton Chekhov, a Russian physician, dramatist, and author Ah, the old “show, don’t tell” advice. Good advice never gets old, however. (Though some continue to rail against it.) As is often the case, Grammar Girl makes the distinctions
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Never kick a sleeping skunk. — Kelly Long’s Mom Mom’s have a lot of great advice. I’m sure we’ve all heard: Money does not grow on trees. Don’t make that face or it’ll freeze in that position. Always change your underwear; you never know when you’ll have an accident. Be careful or you’ll put your
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Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author of novels and short stories Laugh at your own jokes. – Neil Gaiman, an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, and graphic novels Wow. Sometimes writing advice is so contradictory.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. – John Steinbeck, an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. Sometimes I do get frozen by
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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott Card, an American author primarily known for science fiction Observation is a key writer’s trait. Sometimes I sit on my front porch and watch the
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“But I talk about my life anyway because if, on the one hand, hardly anything could be less important, on the other hand, hardly anything could be more important. My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize
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“There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge.” Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century author, best known for his novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped. You know my love for tight writing. I am convinced knowing what not to include is far more important than
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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.” ― Stephen King I have heard this said over and over by many different folks. Do you think it’s true? I do. The times in my life when I haven’t made the time to read,
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