“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it,
nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
― C.S. Lewis
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then
stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris
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“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
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“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it,
nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
― C.S. Lewis
#WritingCommunity#JoyOfWords#PowerOfWords
“The thing about a #story is that you dream it as you tell it,
hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in
this way memory and imagination and language combine to
make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your
senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illumina
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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a
love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort
to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion
has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost
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“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is
the only recourse left for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their
greatest happiness in using it. ”
�� Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as
perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then
stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris
#WritingCommunity#Writing#ShortStory
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
― Gustave Flaubert
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