Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

~ Ray Bradbury

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Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

~ Ken Poirot

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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

~ Alice Munro

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All stories are the sin of their weaver.

~ Miyuki Miyabe

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Inside is where we meet everyone else, it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

~ Charles Simic

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Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

~ Melody Robinette

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Writers fly with imaginary wings.

~ Melody Robinette

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Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

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Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.

~ Lara Biyuts

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It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

~ Lara Biyuts

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The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This requires more parts of the brain. Some parts process emotion. Others infer the thoughts of others, letting us empathize with their experiences. Yet other parts package the experience into memories for future reflection

~ Livia Blackburne

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MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.

~ John Rember

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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the words and worry about them... Then your worry goes into them and they set about killing each other. So you keep going as long as you can, then look back and see what you have written. After a bit of practice and after telling yourself you are going to use any old word that comes into your head so long as it seems right, you will surprise yourself. You will read back through what you have written and you will get a shock. You will have captured a spirit, a creature.

~ Ted Hughes

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Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

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Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

~ Junot Díaz

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In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class able to write a competent story. In fact, so many people can now write competent stories that the short story as a medium is in danger of dying of competence. We want competence, but competence by itself is deadly. What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

~ Flannery O'connor

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Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.)

~ Rainbow Rowell

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