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"What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
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alcohol
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smoke
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writing-process
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Charles Bukowski |
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ba2c86e
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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horror
inspirational
inspiring-quotes
minds
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steven-king
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Stephen King |
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2d94a2b
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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
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Oprah Winfrey |
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a597803
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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
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writing
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Virginia Woolf |
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The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
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authors
funny
high-expectations
narrative
princess-bride
william-goldman
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William Goldman |
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"Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?" Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."
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authors
goals
goals-in-life
growing-up
writers
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Neil Gaiman |
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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
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authors
british
humor
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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661243f
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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
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authors
mystery
social-life
whodunnit
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Agatha Christie |
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"I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.
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authors
creative-writing
gardner
writers
writing
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George R.R. Martin |
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572938c
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Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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38d6d5f
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A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged
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steve-harvey
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tyler-perry
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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1fe5243
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Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged
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steve-harvey
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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ef6ce4d
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Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn't mean people will let you forget about what you've done wrong...Be encouraged
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book-clubs
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inspirational-quotes
kerry-e-wagner
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steve-harvey
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tyler-perry
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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cf69bea
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One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes...is play stupid. Be encouraged
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book-clubs
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encouragement
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kerry-e-wagner
oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote
perspectives
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steve-harvey
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tyler-perry
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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c139396
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Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
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author
authors
e-b-white
eb-white
strunk-and-white
strunk-white
the-elements-of-style
william-strunk-jr
write
writer
writing
writing-advice
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William Strunk Jr. |
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b77d09a
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Did they know that Arthur Conan Doyle went on to investigate mysteries in his real life and absolved a man for a crime for which he has been convicted? Did they know how Agatha Christie brilliantly staged her own disappearance in order to exact an elegant revenge on a cheating husband? They probably did not. And no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school on the wings of her interest in the Ellingham case, and who had been a bystander at a death that was now looking more and more suspicious.
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arthur-conan-doyle
authors
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Maureen Johnson |
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398cc17
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"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."
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authoring
authors
on-writing
write
writer
writers
writing
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Anne Lamott |
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79cec82
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Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?
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author-quotes
authors
fiction
fiction-writing
fictional
fictional-truth
writing
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Nora Roberts |
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01b8a97
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"Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. "Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?" asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. "You always get your kicks pointing out defects?" retorted The Drippy Man. "Just curious. Never seen anything like it before." "I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants." "So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?" "Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?" Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. "He is quite sensitive," commented The Dry Advisor. "Who is he?" "A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does."
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dubai
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dystopian-fiction
economic-collapse
economics
end-of-the-world
espionage
future
maine
politics
satire
small-press
spy-thriller
writers
writing
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Jeff Phillips |
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d67fe43
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It wouldn't matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged
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authors
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book-clubs
books
bookstores
encouragement
face-book-quotes
inspirational-quotes
kerry-e-wagner
oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote
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steve-harvey
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tyler-perry
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Kerry E. Wagner |
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daac5e5
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What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
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authors
creativity
motivation
professional
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Steven Pressfield |
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debc5e3
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People wonder at the romantic lives of poets and artists, but they should rather wonder at their gift of expression. The occurrences which pass unnoticed in the life of the average man in the existence of a writer of talent are profoundly interesting. It is the man they happen to that makes their significance.
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authors
experiences
expression
maugham
poets
w-somerset-maugham
writer
writing
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W. Somerset Maugham |