It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories. Paul Gallico
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Ernest Hemingway
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.).. 'I spoke to three scholars, ' [the character says 'at last.']. .two of them said that, after death,...
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Roman Payne
Every wound is a word.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a...
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Erin Bow
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
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Warren Adler
More Quotes By Paul Gallico
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.
And when the sun sets...then the night magic spreads out above your head; worlds and universes a-borning and a-dying–stars and planets and galaxies. And the bigger the telescope they can make, and the farther into the beyond they are able to penetrate, the greater grows...
This is her home now--of her own free will.
Japanese goldfish, With your gossamer tail, You are the loveliest creature I have ever seen."" Japanese kitten, Put your tongue back in where it belongs And go away. I know exactly what you are thinking.
God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.
