“Writing is showbusiness for shy people.”
— Lee Child
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Shy Business
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Poetic Beauty
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Golden Writers Lives
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The Right of the Born Writer
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Forget to Gain
“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”
— Allen Ginsberg
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Required Thinking
“If writing didn’t require thinking then we’d all be doing it.”
― Jeremiah Laabs
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Surface Creativity
“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
― Red Haircrow
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Draft Yourself
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett
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Things Are Plotting
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Hardest Work in the World
“Writing is the hardest work in the world…. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”
— Harlan Ellison
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