Jack El-Hai: writing wisdom and tips

Jack El-Hai posts writing wisdom and tips. [email protected]

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#Writing: "You bring me a picture like this and want money for it? You may as well put your hand in my pocket and steal it. It isn't commercial. Everyone in it dies." – Adolph Zukor, who died 50 years ago on today's date

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#Writing: "And that is what I did. Sat down. Thought. Came up with explanations. Marveled at this odd process." – Solvej Balle

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#Writing: "To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears." – Octavia E. Butler

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#Writing: "Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?" – Bret Easton Ellis

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#Writing: "Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on." – Jane Austen

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The cover of my next book, coming on October 6 from Pegasus Books. It's a nonfiction account of a miscarriage of justice in 1933 and the teamwork of two men who resolved it twenty years later. Available for pre-order: https://t.co/Hto4xF819S

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#Writing: "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." - Allen Ginsberg, born 100 years ago on today's date

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#Writing: "A very smart man tells me the thing I have written is too much about myself. Too much 'I.' Could I please write something else? Differently?" – Lidia Yuknavitch

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#Writing: "The world is disgracefully managed; one hardly knows to whom to complain." – Ronald Firbank

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#Writing: "Nobody is going to give you a thing. You have to give it yourself. You have to tell us what you have to say." – Cheryl Strayed

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#Writing: "Where your fear is, there is your task." - Carl Jung

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#Writing: "The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it." – Joan Didion

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#Writing: "When you're creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit." - Miles Davis, born 100 years ago on today's date

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"Women lived for a long time without #writing; then they began to write with their lives and for their lives." – Karoline von Günderrode

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#Writing: "If you're looking for a new idea, read an old book." – Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

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#Writing: "I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away." - Nancy Mitford

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#Writing: "There had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French." – P.G. Wodehouse

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#Writing: "Human happiness is rarely in the best of circumstances without shadows, and an almost pure happiness can be a terror to itself." – Iris Murdoch

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#Writing: "Whatever happened to short biographies?" – Charles McGrath

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#Writing: "It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste." – Ngaio Marsh