Writing
- To Read: Aldous Huxley’s “The Education of an Amphibian”
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- "The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King
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- "Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis
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- To Read: Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer
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- "A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury
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- "The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you... See more
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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
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- "Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
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- "I circled around summer noons and October midnights, sensing that there somewhere in the bright and dark seasons must be something that was really me." - Ray Bradbury
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- "The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
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