“Easy reading is damned hard writing.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Writer’s Best Friend
Let Them Think
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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Scintillating Genius—Originality
“Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through—originality.”
— Jack Kerouac
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Odd Writing
“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
— Margaret Laurence
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Single Drop of Description
“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.”
— George Singleton
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Madness & Reason
“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
— Andre Gide
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Handle the Fear—Embrace the Dream
“Part of our fear is that we think we have to do everything all at once.
We’re afraid of the size of the dream or the magnitude of the mission.
We think we have to accomplish everything in one sitting.
The enormity of that expectation paralyzes us.
I can’t write an entire book in one afternoon.
But I can do just about anything for 60 minutes.
That’s not too scary.
I can handle that.”
— Jon Acuff
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Learn How to Rewrite
“I didn’t become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don’t just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.”
— Louis Sachar
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The Library Made Me Write
“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.”
— Sandra Cisneros
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