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“Vigorous writing is concise”

December 26, 2010 No Comments

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the reader make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in ...

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“Everything in life is writable”

August 16, 2010 No Comments

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath (27 October 1932 to 11 February 1963); Poet, novelist and short story writer

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“Writing is easy”

June 21, 2010 No Comments

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler (8 March 1890 to 2 July 1960); American journalist, author and dramatist

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What makes a professional writer?

June 7, 2010 No Comments

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. - Richard Bach; author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

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“Experience is your material”

June 1, 2010 No Comments

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material. - William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 to 16 December 1965); English playwright, novelist ...

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