ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

If you always use the final comma in the series, the serial comma or Oxford comma, the Lord will smile on you and your house.
(@johnemcintyre)

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Write a lot. Read even more. Read widely, biographies and books out of your favorite genre. Value constructive criticism, even when it stings, and especially when it comes from an editor or a well intentioned colleague. It takes a lot of focus and effort to suggest specific changes in a work, the same kind of effort it takes to write. That dedication deserves to be taken seriously. We learn to write by writing, and no one is ever through learning. You may as well be dead.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
— Stephen King
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#Art Orlowska

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
— Ernest Hemingway
#Art Kishan Gadhesariya

Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
ANNE LAMOTT
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#Art Christine Ellger

The purpose of being a serious writer is not to express oneself, and it is not to make something beautiful, though one might do those things anyway. Those things are beside the point. The purpose of being a serious writer is to keep people from despair. If you keep that in mind always, the wish to make something beautiful or smart looks slight and vain in comparison. If people read your work and, as a result, choose life, then you are doing your job.

SARAH MANGUSO

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER

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I like to drink in the evening, go to sleep with a good idea, and wake up with the idea solved.
JOHN LE CARRÉ#amwriting #creativity #writing

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a #book, a phrase learned.
ANAÏS NIN
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#Art Romuald Chaigneau

If I were in solitary confinement, I’d never write another #novel, and probably not keep a journal, but I’d write poetry, because poems, you see, are between God and me.
MAY SARTON

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