“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A Different Kind of Teller
For a Writer to Succeed…
“In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things—read and write—and wait.”
—Countee Cullen
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Why Do YOU Write?
“Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Difficult the Task May Be
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
— Madeleine L’Engle
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Hem the Flow
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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True Alchemists of Words
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
— William H. Gass
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Burn Hot, Dear Writer
“Write while the heat is in you.… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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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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Make Your Reader Believe
“If you tell the reader that Bull Beezley is a brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s reaction may be, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But if you show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader believes!”
— Fred East
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