There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature. Walter Dean Myers
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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Jodi Picoult
Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.
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Leisa Rayven
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
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Stephen King
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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Robert Frost
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not,...
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William Faulkner
More Quotes By Walter Dean Myers
When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his...
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger.. Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this--like a television show in eternal syndication--that they will...
Wizards are always hungry.
Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.
