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Writing Pains
“Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil—but there is no way around them.”
– Isaac Asimov
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Is writing hard work? Or magic?
“People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.”
– Harlan Ellison
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How do you REALLY write?
When to delete, to be complete
“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”
– Anton Chekhov
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You want it? You do it.
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
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