A great fictional world is the sum of details that to most readers are unknown.
Donald Maass
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The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.
Edgar Wright
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A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is and you go with that. Left to our own devices, a writer would endlessly fiddle with a book, changing little thing after little thing.
Kimberly Pauley
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Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.
Nona King
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“Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.”
— David Sedaris
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Likability is a factor when you’re choosing a roommate, but it’s not necessarily a factor when you’re creating a living character.
Margaret Atwood (via writingdotcoffee)
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I’m always trying to picture things.
John Lydon
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Writers, when they write, need to approach things for the first time each time.
Natalie Goldberg (from Writing Down the Bones)
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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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Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
David Foster Wallace
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You go where the story leads you.
Stephen King
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
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A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.
W.H. Auden
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G.K. Chesterton
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.
Gerald Brenan
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Writing is a delicious agony.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
William Cobbett
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