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Why Do You Write?

December 31, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.”

― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

Step Away From Your Work

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“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

Sound Off…ONE TWO…Sound Off…THREE FOUR…

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“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

Forget Me Not

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“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

― Louisa May Alcott

Who Are You?

December 23, 2013October 11, 20131 Comment

“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

Curious Forge

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“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.”

― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

The March of the Characters

December 17, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“I write because, if I don’t, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

― Astrid ‘Artistikem’ Cruz

The Mind-Picture of a Novelist

December 15, 2013October 11, 20132 Comments

“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”

― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

It Takes A Writer….

December 13, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

And Then, You Remembered.

December 11, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

Category: Hooked On Quotes

Why Do You Write?

“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.”

― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

Step Away From Your Work

“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

Sound Off…ONE TWO…Sound Off…THREE FOUR…

“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

Forget Me Not

“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

― Louisa May Alcott

Who Are You?

“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

Curious Forge

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.”

― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

The March of the Characters

“I write because, if I don’t, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

― Astrid ‘Artistikem’ Cruz

The Mind-Picture of a Novelist

“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”

― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

It Takes A Writer….

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

And Then, You Remembered.

“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

― Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.”

― Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

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“My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.”

― Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes

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“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

― Jo Linsdell

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“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

― Louisa May Alcott

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“Until you know who you are you can’t write.”

― Salman Rushdie

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“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.”

― Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

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“I write because, if I don’t, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

― Astrid ‘Artistikem’ Cruz

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“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”

― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

Share this:

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it’s a lie. Books don’t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you’d believe.”

― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

Share this:

“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

― Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Molly Make-Believe

Share this:

“Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.”