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- Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
- One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
- Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
- Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.
- Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to…
- To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.
- I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
- One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
- All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.
- Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did…
- It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask:…
- Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore…
- If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
- Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
- On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's…
- Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the…
- Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the…
- From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a…
- Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!
- The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in…
- This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying…
- Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.
- Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.
- Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.
- Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
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