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One Word. Find it.

January 12, 2014October 12, 20134 Comments

“Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarisms, in order to dodge the difficulty.”

—Gene Fowler

Great Writers Don’t Just….

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“Great writers don’t just inform you. They don’t just entertain you. They don’t just persuade you. They change you, leaving you a slightly different person than you were before you read their work.”

—Jon Morrow

Ponder and Wonder

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“Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”

—Thomas W. Higginson

Get the Story Out

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“And I do think that great fiction, even when it’s comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”

― Karen Russell

Self-Exploratory Operation…AKA Writing

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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

-Harper Lee

No Condoning, Only Telling

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“The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive.”

― Eudora Welty, On Writing

Don’t Twain Yourself

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“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

Secret & Silent—Inspiration

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“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people’s lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

― Marge Piercy, Braided Lives

Happy, & Now You Know It

November 13, 2013October 11, 2013Leave a comment

“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it’s a big deal to bow–or kneel or get knocked down–to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else’s. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.”

― Patricia Hampl

What Goes In…Is What Comes Out

November 9, 2013November 9, 2013Leave a comment

“To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children’s classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven’t done for a while….”

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One Word. Find it.

—Gene Fowler

Great Writers Don’t Just….

“Great writers don’t just inform you. They don’t just entertain you. They don’t just persuade you. They change you, leaving you a slightly different person than you were before you read their work.”

—Jon Morrow

Ponder and Wonder

“Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”

—Thomas W. Higginson

Get the Story Out

“And I do think that great fiction, even when it’s comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”

― Karen Russell

Self-Exploratory Operation…AKA Writing

“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

-Harper Lee

No Condoning, Only Telling

“The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive.”

― Eudora Welty, On Writing

Don’t Twain Yourself

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

Secret & Silent—Inspiration

― Marge Piercy, Braided Lives

Happy, & Now You Know It

― Patricia Hampl

What Goes In…Is What Comes Out

― Lucy Sussex

—Gene Fowler

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—Jon Morrow

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“Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”

—Thomas W. Higginson

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“And I do think that great fiction, even when it’s comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.”

― Karen Russell

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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

-Harper Lee

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“The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive.”

― Eudora Welty, On Writing

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“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

― Mark Twain

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― Patricia Hampl

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