Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. Jane Yolen.
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Never argue . . .
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to
their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain.
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The concentration of the elite athlete…
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps
to the concentration of the writer. Julia Leigh
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A Professional Writer . . .
To Write . . .
Whatever you are . . .
Finish what you’re writing.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
- Neil Gaiman
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If you do not breathe through writing…
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.
-Anais Nin
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Description begins in . . .
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen King
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“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.”
“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.” — Voltaire, French, writer, philosopher, historian
Source: “The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.”
AM Simpson 