“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
— Roald Dahl
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Not A Bad Thing
“It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.”
— Neil Gaiman
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Find the Location
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
— Flannery O’Connor
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Shake Up the Familiar
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
— Anaïs Nin
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Find Your Greatest Happiness
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Relate to Reality No Longer
“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.”
— Michel Houellebecq
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Foundational Dreams
” . . . if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary . . . and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Foreword, Preface, Introduction…Oh my!
[found on kunzonpublishing.com; by Joseph C. Kunz, Jr.]
“It is essential…to understand the differences between the foreword, preface, and introduction of a book. Each section plays a vital role in the critical and financial success of the book. Without these three sections, a non-fiction book is incomplete, and not giving the readers their money’s worth…
1. The Foreword (Why the reader should read the book)
The foreword is the place for a guest author to show the reader why they should be reading this book.
2. The Preface (How the book came about)
The preface is a place for the book’s author to tell the reader how this book came into being, and why.
3. The Introduction (About the content of the book)
The introduction introduces the material that is covered in the book.”
To read the expanded article from Joseph C. Kunz, Jr., click here.
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