Hectalex

Hectalex is a place for writers to write and share their 100-word micro-stories. Write something every day, even if it's just 100 little words.

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“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”
― William H. Gass
#writing #hate

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“Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!”
― Leif Enger

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“The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.”
― Washington Irving
#author #reputation #writing

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“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”
― Jonathan Price
#thinking #word #writing

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“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”
― Paul Fussell
#writing #grenade!

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“I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.”
― Jeanne Voelker
#writing #editing

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“I go with the flow but I write against it.”
― Tamara Jasmine Burrell
#humour #writing

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“To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.”
― M. Clifford
#writing #living #breathing #eternity

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“I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.”
― Sonia Rumzi
#silence #writing #write

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“In the country of the story the writer is king.”
― Shirley Jackson
#writing #king #writer

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“I fix the cramped, lined pages
with my curious stare. How do you
come to exist?”
― Kiera Woodhull
#imagination #dreams #writing

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“For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

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“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”
― Anneli Rufus
#writing #alone

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“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.”
― Kelly Barnhill
#writing

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“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
― Tiffany Madison
#novel #writing #love

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“I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.”
― Carl Sandburg
#ambition #career #writer #writing

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“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”
― Mark Leidner
#aphorism #writing

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“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”
― Desi Puspitasari
#writing #experience #imagination

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“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.”
― Jefferson Smith