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Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a — Joyce Carol Oates
...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?... — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ... — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ... — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone... — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the cir — Henry Fowler
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I — Randy Ingermanson
Shut up, Ray. — Henry Kuttner
I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, b — Brooklyn Hudson, WISHBONE...Be Careful What You Wish For
You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) th — Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues. — Dipesh Nepal
Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep the — Phyllis A. Whitney
...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it m — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain