By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry…-Brandon Sanderson
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Writing Quote
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
– Neil Gaiman
Writing Quote
I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling them a story, and I don’t want them to get up until it’s finished.
– James Patterson
Writing Quote
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
-Truman Capote
Writing Quote
A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.
-William Zinsser
Writing Quote
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
-Jane Yolen
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A word after a word after a word is power.
– Margaret Atwood
Writing Quote
It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C.J. Cherryh
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