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The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment… — George R. R. Martin
I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed… — Drake
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That… — David Eddings
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it onto the page. Your Left-brain… — Jeff Bollow
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them… — Ray Bradbury
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will… — Joseph Campbell
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of… — John Steinbeck
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at… — William Zinsser
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back… — Truman Capote

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