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(I wouldn’t be surprised if there is already a thread like this, but I didn't see a recent one and thought it couldn’t hurt to have another.)Last night I picked up Ray Bradbury's collection of essays...

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This was from the intro to _The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty_:"`I try,' Eudora Welty writes, `to enter the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a...

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The following quote attributed to J.B. Phillips came to me via a friend:"If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and...

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"And so now you will begin to work at your writing. Remember these things. Work with all your intelligence and love. Work freely and rollickingly as though they were talking to a friend who loves you....

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"Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing."----Ezra Pound, quoted in Raymond Carver's essay "On Writing" Christopher FisherRead me!"A Cure For Regret" at Infuze...

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"You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for...

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Sayings from a packet of pencils a friend gave me, available from www.readerscatalog.com, listed in ascending order according to how much I like them:5. "Words are the voice of the heart."-...

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Robert A. Heinlein's Rules Of Writing 1. You must write.2. You must finish what you write.3. You must submit what you write.4. You must keep submitting what you write until it sells.5. Don't re-write...

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"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing."- Bonnie Friedman (not sure where this is from, I saw it somewhere and have had it posted to my...

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A couple from Raymond Chandler:"Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a...

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Quote:It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.Author of one of my favorites The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot quoted in Writers at Work, Second Series, edited by George Plimpton.

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This is about the publishing road and not about writing but I love it so much, I have to share it:Quote:"Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag...

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Here's a few from Jack M. Bickham's 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes: Quote:All good fiction moves forward; all good fiction writers look ahead.Quote:Consistent, persistent, even dogged work,...

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"Man without art is eyeless; man with art and nothing else would see little but the reflections of his own fears and desires."

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How very true. I've seen both, from inside and out.

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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug." Samuel Clemens

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Discovered in a fiction work--by implication, the importance of precise word choice:Quote:Without a meaning, a word has no worth. It would be a silly noise in the air, an abstract splat of ink on...

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On using life's circumstancs to propel your writing:Quote:Which means writing as cure. Not completely of course. You never get over your parents in the hospital or your best love in the grave. I won't...

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All arts, big and small, are the elimination of waste motion in favor of the concise declaration.The artist learns what to leave out.----Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing Christopher FisherRead...

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This is from Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird:"E.L. Doctorow once said that 'writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that...

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The World According to Garp is, of course, the marvelous wolrd according to John Irving. There is another world according to Flannery O'Connor, and others according to William Faulkner and Ernest...

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