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Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
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So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can… — Kerima Polotan Copy Share Image
As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
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I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash'… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
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Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
From my vantage point, when I'm criticized in a way that I can hear what's being said - i.e., the issues -… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Whenever it feels good to write, I just am so relieved, and that is the one revelation every time. I thank God… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“It must be nice to have someone to write to. I’ve never had the luxury of love letters,” Maxon said, a sad… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
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