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Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually…
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Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they…
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The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
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Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going…
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At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time…
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I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put…
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A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and…
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's…
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So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had…
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
— Lawren Harris
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When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really…
— Dorothy Maclean
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The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
— Umberto Eco
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Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our…
— Elton John
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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors…
— Eric Allen
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Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have…
— Jack Kornfield
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all.…
— Cheri Huber
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