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writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing want pay
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed. E. B. White
writing design style
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.
writing heart long
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the inconsequential but near things of this living, was the only kind of creative work which I could accomplish with any sincerity or grace. As a reporter, I was a flop, because I always came back laden not with facts about the case, but with a mind full of the little difficulties and amusements I had encountered in my travels.
writing thinking way
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.
writing men young-writers
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
stories scripts technique
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up. Joe Shuster
stories
everybody has a story to tell Joe Strummer
stories definitions stones
Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore Jodi Picoult
stories done moral-of-the-story
And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you. John Green
stories world misguided
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
stories world want
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
stories jeremiah feeding
Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this. Cassandra Clare
stories way heard
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard. Carolyn Heilbrun
stories
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.