ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

What isn’t said is as important as what is said. In many classic short stories, the real action occurs in the silences. Try to keep all the good stuff off the page.

What’s so hard about the first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
JOAN DIDION

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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
~Julia Cameron
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There’s a touch of magic in all great writing, it transports people out of their current lives, and into other lives. The story becomes greater than the words themselves that we read. #amwriting Writing. -Wrtr

That’s what turns young men & women into writers—the happiness you discover living in books.
~P Auster
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I can fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS
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Early morning, lunch break, on the train, late at night — it doesn’t matter. Find the extra hour, go to the same place, shut the door. No exceptions, no excuses.
JOHN GRISHAM

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Celebrate your unique ability as a writer to see the world differently. -Joy D Fanning #amwriting Be Writing.

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day — so start writing.
SHONDA RHIMES

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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer
ZADIE SMITH
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