ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash
Leonard Cohen
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Never put off writing until you are better at it.
GARY HENDERSON

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Don’t give up after the first hundred rejections. Each “no” takes you one step further to “yes”–if you keep trying to get better.
~LAURIE PAWLIK-KIENLEN

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Creating suspense involves making the reader ask a question, then withholding the answer for as long as possible, without losing their interest. That means creating false leads, going on side quests, creating diversions, whilst maintaining the tension.
@Joannechocolat

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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction
~GRAHAM GREENE

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The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
NICHOLSON BAKER

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I’ve always felt that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. It’s the way that we communicate with one another. So if anyone is listening to me feels that he or she is a writer, you probably are.
JOYCE CAROL OATES

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If you are lagging in your writing. Don’t be afraid or feel guilty to schedule time out to just think about your story, ponder it, strategize about it instead of writing. Story clarity always fixes writing lulls.

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTT

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Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
ANDREI VOZNESENSKY

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