Writing Quotes

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

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You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.

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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need to know to find your short story.

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If you don’t allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

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The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you’ve done a story justice, you’re in the wrong business.

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There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prodding with a purpose.

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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.