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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I…
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Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or…
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At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…
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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.
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Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
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I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll…
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My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.
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After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,…
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The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
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Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
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I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
— Donald Barthelme
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of…
— P.D. James
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.
— Elmore Leonard
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
— Ian Hunter
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
— Paul Haggis
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
— Mo Yan
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I think writers are very anxious.
— Helen Garner
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed…
— Ian Rankin
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking…
— Augusten Burroughs
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