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I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. - William Zinsser
William Zinsser
Person
Writing
Admit
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. - Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Novel
Laws
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot. - Leigh Brackett
Leigh Brackett
Purposes
Plot
Emotions
Human
The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written. - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Written
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King
Stephen King
Story
Children
Hurt
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Intensely
Happens
Careers
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Through
Paper
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Plot
Destinations
We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. - John Updike
John Updike
Interesting
Hero
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer
Plate
Story
It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. - Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Write
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. - Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Literary
Life
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell
George Orwell
Write
Book
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Storytellers
Childhood
To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive. - William Zinsser
William Zinsser
Defend
Alive
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. - William Faulkner
William Faulkner
Hemingway
Dostoyevsky
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writer
Realization
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. - Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Each
Company
Shakespeare
Skillful
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.
Golda Meir
Funny
Israel
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
Funny
Golda Meir
Oil
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