Writers need to remind ourselves to make conscious decisions about every character we write, not just default to Neutral.
– Shannon Hale
Category: Quotable
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The whole labor of writing is to make it look like it just came off the top of your head.
– Paddy Chayefsky
Quotable 244
Writing is like sex: You should do it, not talk about it.
– Howard Ogden
Quotable 243
Story is change.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 242
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
Quotable 241
To my mind the best one can ever do as a writer is be honest about your background and partialities and try to understand how they affect your outlook, to do violence to your own cliches, to practice compassion over caricature.
– Laurie Penny
Quotable 240
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
– Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
Quotable 239
You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
– John Rogers
Quotable 238
A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
– Janet Fitch
Quotable 237
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London