“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners.”
— George R. R. Martin
Tag: writers
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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Readers Want to Believe—Make Them
“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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Rusty Writers
“Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk—away from any open flames—to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.”
—George Singleton
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Writer’s Diet for Success
“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
—Julie Gorges
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Mysterious Alchemy of Writers
“Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.”
—Leslie Gordon Barnard
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Profession of Writer
“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Social Skills of a Writer…?
“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.”
— Anthony Minghella
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Character Laugh
“Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”
— Luigi Pirandello
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Beginning-Writer’s Misfortune
“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.”
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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