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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
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“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
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“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Skeleton Crew
― Skeleton Crew
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
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