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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a…
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter…
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the…
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the…
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The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
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I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that…
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Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin…
— Lawrence Venuti
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are…
— Peter Drucker
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It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany…
— Gail Caldwell
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The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But…
— Shannon Hale
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As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
— Tom Skerritt
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it…
— Dean Dillon
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on…
— Terry Brooks
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Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.
— Piers Paul Read
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