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I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
Stephen King
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Ernest Hemingway
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It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Mark Twain
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And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
William Shakespeare
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
Somerset Maugham
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman Melville
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It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
C. J. Cherryh
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
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Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
Ray Bradbury
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A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
David Brin
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
Anton Chekhov
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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
Ray Bradbury
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
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Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.
Ayn Rand
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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
Joseph Conrad