I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

~ Christy Hall

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I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

~ Christy Hall

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Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

~ Christy Hall

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When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

~ Christy Hall

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Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

~ Christy Hall

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A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

~ Christy Hall

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Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel, in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.

~ Lori Goodwin

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Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

~ Christy Hall

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Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

~ Christy Hall

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Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a Times-Picayune book review.

~ Susan Larson

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...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

~ John Geddes

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Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.

~ Alistair Cross

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Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Inventing plausible new realities is what the genre is all about. One starts from a hypothesis and then builds out the logic, adding detail and incident to give substance to imaginary structures. In that respect, science fiction and theology have much in common.

~ Lawrence Wright

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Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. We learn and embark on personal transformation by formulating, revising, and refining our conception of the world each time that we encounter new facts, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. To understand the world a person must employ reason and organize their episodic personal experiences into a system of narrative thought. The language that we employ to internalize our personal experiences constructs our mental system, and our mental thoughts in turn regulate us. We become of a personification of our language, as expressed in narrative stories of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation between word and meaning between writer and word is theoretical.

~ Jeanette Winterson

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Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the influence of cosmic radiations quite different from those of the day, human affairs are apt to come to a crisis. At night most human beings die and are

~ Anna Kavan

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...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

~ John Geddes

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Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Narrative writing represents a personal attempt to quantify and understand the psychological singularities behind the author’s personality traits as delineated by winnowed list of formative life experiences.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

~ Erica Lorraine Scheidt

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The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes all things possible, or we mold our characters and events from our own experiences, or our dreams of wanting to experience.

~ Judith Kohnen

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Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

~ Don Roff

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An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

~ Don Roff

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I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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One day I will write a book. An epitaph

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Every book has its ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we respond to the spark of humanness within ourselves that seeks to come out in the light and greet the world. When we tell the stories of our lives, we give voice to people bereft of speech, we make the persons whom we love or loved immortal, and we pass along our familiarity with the natural and physical world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

~ John Geddes

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...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

~ John Geddes

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Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

~ Don Roff

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When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

~ Don Roff

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Writing Tip:Don't let the writing rules bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story.

~ Linda Westphal

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I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

~ Jack Jordan

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It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

~ William Zinsser

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There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

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