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- Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police…
- I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a…
- Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of…
- I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer.…
- Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my…
- When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.
- Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in…
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way…
- And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're…
- We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the…
- But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your…
- If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then…
- Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
- In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers…
- If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and…
- Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.
- A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to…
- Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer…
- Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.
- How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his…
- I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that…
- If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative…
- Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
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- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin