Writing Quotes

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[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Terry Pratchett

Authors Science Fiction Writing Writers Sf Mainstream Lit

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

Writing

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

Writing

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Writing

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth readin

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Books Reading Writing

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing]

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

Writing

All the time she writing the world had continued.

All the time she writing the world had continued.

Writing

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answeri

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Poetry Writing Poems

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberti

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Thomas Jefferson

Communication Liberty Writing

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiment

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see i

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway

Life Philosophy Inspirational Writing Literature

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Words Honesty Appearance Writing Oscar Wilde Clarity

If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter lette

If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.

Minimalism Simplicity Brevity Writing Physicist Mathematician 689

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no I

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Writing

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

Writing Benefits

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly sel

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Experience Pride Reading Thought Television Writing

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom Women Writing

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think any

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Writing

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to sp

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Writing Literary Criticism

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Ernest Hemingway

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