Quote: Isaac Asimov
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
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Writing Tip: Facts
Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts. The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get
QUOTE: The Poetry of Language by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to describe what things sound like. ‘As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and forth.’ Cadence, onomatopoeia, the poetry of language are all so important. Learn all that you can about how to bring sound into your work.
A writer is… by Ursula K. Le Guin
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words
Editing lets the fire show through the smoke ~ Arthur Plotnik
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you, and we edit to let
Gordon B. Hinckley on Humor and Smiles
We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken
The bastard chimera we call a ‘story.’ – Caitlín R. Kiernan
“It is not the task of a writer to ‘tell all,’ or even to decide what to leave in, but
When a book leaves its author’s desk it changes ~ Salman Rushdie
When a book leaves its author’s desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than
Quote: Russell Baker on Punctuation and Body Language
When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation
Mark Twain on Writing: “Kill your adjectives”
Mark Twain, who read widely, was passionately interested in the problems of style; the mark of the strictest literary sensibility
Quote of the Day: Richard Wright
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as
Anton Chekhov on Writing
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do
Thursday Quote: Elizabeth Bowen
“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.” Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) What does this mean?
Notes to Young Writers: Annie Dillard on Punctuation
Annie Dillard gave a speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This was the advice she thought
Dara Rochlin Book Doctor 