ETH AINA'S CREATIVE ISLAND.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. – Jane Yolen

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer.
DEREK WALCOTT

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the World.
~Einstein.
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The books a writer reads are so important; they form a compost bed beneath the rosebushes of her own writing.
BEN DOLNICK

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I think any writer who gives away his work demeans himself, demeans the craft, demeans the art, and demeans the buyer. It is not only caveat emptor, it is caveat lector. I don’t mean to be crude when I say this, but I won’t take a piss unless I’m paid properly.

HARLAN ELLISON

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Getting your characters right, can be the most important thing you do in your writing.

Characters always stand out to your readers.

A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Take time to get to know and learn from other writers. Each of them has the wisdom to give if you are willing to listen. Joy D Fanning

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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of #writing you want to do.
JENNIFER EGAN

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the #book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV