ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.
James A. Michener
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Beyond reading and writing? My advice would be to live a creative life. By that I mean, keep your radar up at all times. Go places. Do things. Look around. Observe other people. Listen to how they talk. The worst thing a creative person can do is sit in a room and create all day. Let new stuff flow into your brain and collide with all that old stuff you’ve accumulated over the years. Then make sure you have a pencil and some blank paper handy, just in case there’s a spark.

Talent is a good thing to have if u want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar
S King
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Don’t overwrite. Avoid the redundant phrases, the distracting adjectives, the unnecessary adverbs. Beginners, especially, seem to think that writing fiction needs a special kind of flowery prose, completely unlike any sort of language one might encounter in day-to-day life. This is a misapprehension about how the effects of fiction are produced.

SARAH WATERS

“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.”
– Mark Twain
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Writing is hard. That’s why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.

ANDY IHNATKO

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.
~ Tom Kane
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

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Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.

REBECCA SOLNIT

If a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
#Gaiman
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