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"I learned that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a...
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
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A few for the barrel, all from Mark Twain:“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity”“Strip the human race absolutely naked and it would be a real democracy”"The human race has...
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More Dorothy Parker Quotes, since Bats brought it up: This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet...
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Man is the only animal who weeps and laughs, for he is the only one struck by the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be
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"Rarely in life can we know a real human being as comletely as we come to know good fictional characters" "When a writer scrupulously models his characters on the way men and women really are, he...
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Several posts have been moved from this thread to the Quotes thread in the bar, just to help redefine the writing focus of this area. Please share general fun-quotes in the bar, and keep this area for...
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When asked how he wrote, William Faulkner answered "I set my characters on the road and walk beside them, listening to what they have to say" It occurs to me that this is how Sorkin spoke about plot....
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"There is another aspect that is worth considering. If a writer piles on endless defeat and discouragement, the reader may find the story too unpleasant to read. The writer is first of all an...
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And if anyone questions this last quote, just remember Stephen King's "Storm of the Century", which was an unmitigated disaster for one reason - the good guys literally didn't have for one minute a...
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"Do not try to keep everything at a high pitch all the way through a story. Excitement, if too steady, can be as boring as having nothing at all happening: --Farnsworth Wright, Editor WEIRD TALES...
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From (attn Dinah!) City of Angels... This song is sung by Buddy Fiddler, a Movie Director, to Stine, the novelist who's book he's about to disembowel: You're a literary great Who should've wona...
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"Writer's block is unlikely to occur if we find new experiences and impressions to feed into the creative right brain. --Phyllis A. Whitney, "Pacing and Suspense"
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"The depiction of violence in novels is difficult for two reasons. The violence itself is both external and internal... and the nature of the violent act as described can impede the flow off the...
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As someone who specializes pretty much in writing action/adventure, I don't totally agree with the above. I do agree that writing violence/action is not the easiest. In fact, I think very few writers...
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I'm going to disagree with you on the first Bats, but chime right in with an AMEN on the second. I don't say that violence will necessarily impede the flow or become tedious, but it certainly may if a...
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"This was when I realized a reader's attention could be as easily lost by too much as by too little. There can be a strong buildup to a scene, after which we must allow for a letdown, a rest, before...
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John Gardner says "fiction is like a dream" Style creates that dream keeping the reader's eyes glued to the page, hoisting him astride a steeplechase jumper along with Dick Francis's hero or causing...
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"I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to...
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"I love monologues. They are a legitimate part of any drama. The MTV generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by quick cuts, lowering the attention span further and further, that any...
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