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Quotable 488

Posted on June 14, 2023June 12, 2023 by bryon

I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer.
– Blaise Cendrars

Posted in Quotable Tagged Blaise Cendrars, daydreamer, extraordinary, not, Quotable, worker

Quotable 479

Posted on February 22, 2023February 20, 2023 by bryon

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
– Stephen King

Posted in Quotable Tagged adorn, artificial, create, enrich, exist, not, profundity, Quotable, sense, Stephen King, symbolism

Quotable 473

Posted on January 11, 2023January 9, 2023 by bryon

Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes

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Quotable 456

Posted on June 22, 2022June 12, 2022 by bryon

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
– Chuck Wendig

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Quotable 455

Posted on June 15, 2022June 12, 2022 by bryon

Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming, in thinking not writing.
– Joyce Carol Oates

Posted in Quotable Tagged begin, day-dreaming, Joyce Carol Oates, meditation, not, novel, page, Quotable, thinking, writing

Quotable 450

Posted on May 11, 2022May 8, 2022 by bryon

Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
– Sam Shepard

Posted in Quotable Tagged conversation, create, definitely, dialogue, life, not, Quotable, Sam Shepard, self-sustaining

haiku 545

Posted on October 26, 2021October 14, 2021 by bryon

sunny day
not a cloud in the…
wait, there’s one

Posted in haiku Tagged cloud, day, haiku, not, one, sunny, there, wait

Quotable 420

Posted on August 25, 2021August 2, 2021 by bryon

Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne

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Quotable 407

Posted on May 26, 2021May 2, 2021 by bryon

Revising a story that you don’t believe in is like making out with somebody you’re not attracted to.
– Patrick Ryan

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Quotable 394

Posted on February 24, 2021February 1, 2021 by bryon

One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed

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