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few thoughts on writing by writers ...*
The
best advice on writing I've ever received is: "Write with authority."
Cynthia Ozick
Be still when
you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what
you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence
The moment
a man begins to talk about technique, that's proof he is fresh out
of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
If technique
is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
Plot grows
out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are,
if you sit and write about two people you know and are getting to
know better day by day, something is bound to happen.
Anne Lamott
The difference
between the right word and the almost right word is the difference
between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
It is immoral
not to tell.
Albert Camus
* From Advice
to Writers, compiled and edited by Jon Winokur.
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