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A Writer’s Avalanche

August 11, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

When they said, ‘It’s great, Ernest. Truly, it’s great. You cannot know the thing it has,” I wagged my tail in pleasure and plunged into the fiesta concept of life to see if I could not bring some attractive stick back, instead of thinking, ‘If these bastards like it what is wrong with it?’ That was what I would think if I had been functioning as a professional although, if I had been functioning as a professional, I would never have read it to them.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Educate Your Sense

August 9, 2013August 7, 2013Leave a comment

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

Fill in the Blank

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“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

― Harold Ross

River Boat Writer

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“The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It’s not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.”

― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

Big Game Writer

August 3, 2013July 21, 2013Leave a comment

“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

― Kate Braverman

Guts, Not Talent…Necessarily.

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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

― Jessamyn West

Artist Perfection

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“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”

– William Faulkner

Trust Your Readers

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“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”

– E. B. White

Finishing A Book…

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“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

– Truman Capote

How trained are your writing muscles?

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“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

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A Writer’s Avalanche

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

― Ernest Hemingway

Educate Your Sense

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

Fill in the Blank

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

― Harold Ross

River Boat Writer

― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

Big Game Writer

“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

― Kate Braverman

Guts, Not Talent…Necessarily.

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

― Jessamyn West

Artist Perfection

“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”

– William Faulkner

Trust Your Readers

“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”

– E. B. White

Finishing A Book…

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

– Truman Capote

How trained are your writing muscles?

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

– Jane Yolen

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

― Ernest Hemingway

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“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial…a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”

― James Kisner

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“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

― Harold Ross

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― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

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“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

― Kate Braverman

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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

― Jessamyn West

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“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”

– William Faulkner

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“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.”

– E. B. White

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“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

– Truman Capote

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“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

– Jane Yolen

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