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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay.Christopher Hitchens
No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much.’Bell Hooks
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.Franz Kafka
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they’re seeing now, what we’ll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.Jack Kerouac
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.Stephen King
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.Larry L. King
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.Stephen King
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It’s discouraging but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages–100 to zero of the novel.Barbara Kingsolver
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay.Christopher Hitchens
No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much.’Bell Hooks
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.Franz Kafka
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they’re seeing now, what we’ll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.Jack Kerouac
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.Stephen King
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.Stephen King
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.Larry L. King
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.Stephen King
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It’s discouraging but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages–100 to zero of the novel.Barbara Kingsolver
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