ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
NOËL COWARD

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Develop any other skill; turn to any other branch of knowledge; learn how to use your hands. Try woodworking, bird watching, gardening, mushrooming, cooking, fishing, sailing, weaving, pottery, zoology, astronomy, cosmology, take your pick. Whatever activity you engage in as trade or hobby, or field of study, will tone up your body and clear your head. At the very least, it will help you with your metaphors.

STANLEY KUNITZ

If you are going to learn from other writers don’t only read the great ones, because if you do that you’ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you’ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you’ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of bad stuff, too. It’s very encouraging. “Hey, I can do so much better than this.” Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging.

EDWARD ALBEE

Structure is not a template. It’s not a cookie cutter. It’s something that arises organically from the material once you have it.
JOHN McPHEE

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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

Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you’re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can’t see where you’ve come from or where you’re going.
SYD FIELD

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Failure is part of it. You will be rejected dozens and dozens of times. The best way to prepare for it is to have something else in the works by the time the rejection letter arrives. Invest your hope in the next project. Learning to cope with rejection is a good trait to develop.

~PO BRONSON

Writers are dangerous people. Never take them for granted. They are snipers armed with words. They know how to aim with sentences. They can kill you as a character in their plot even before you die physically. ⛱

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK

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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
~Anne Rice
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