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"A little talent is a good thing to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar." - Stephen King

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5 Great Quotations about Readers

���I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.��� - Avi

���The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.��� - Patricia Duncker

���A good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.��� - Stephen King

���One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.��� - Joseph Conrad

���Don���t try to anticipate an ���ideal reader��� ��� except for yourself perhaps, sometime in the future.��� - Joyce Carol Oates

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"There is always, always, always something to write about." - Rob Bignell

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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8 Ways Authors Can Sell More Books on Twitter

��� Tweet your book to popularity
��� Put your Twitter profile text to work for you 
��� How to select a great Twitter profile picture
��� Six great topics for authors to tweet about
��� Four ways to write a great tweet that sell books
��� When to promote your book using Twitter
��� Maximize shares, retweets by using images
��� Tips to ensure your Twitter photos sell books  
��� Promote your book by starting a Twitter chat 
��� BONUS: "It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."  

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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music." - Truman Capote

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7 Great Tips for Writing School Papers

��� Tips on writing winning admission essays
��� Types of academic papers you could write 
��� Understand instructions before writing paper
��� How to properly punctuate 'et. al' 
��� Examples of how to use e.g. vs. i.e. 
��� How to use page numbers in APA style citations
��� How to use block quotations in APA style
��� BONUS: To use or not to use the Oxford comma��� 

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"Writing...ranks among those few acts in which we possess absolute control...If the written page is a universe, each of us is its god." - Rob Bignell

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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8 Tips for Avoiding Bland Writing

��� Use active voice
��� Show don't tell
��� Avoid weak verbs
��� Cull out cliches
��� Cut repetition
��� Say "no" to self-indulgent digressions
��� Delete nulls
��� Nix polysyllabism
��� BONUS: "...the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make." ��� Truman Capote  

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Great Quotations about Opening Lines

���Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.��� ��� Elizabeth Bowen

���The best advice on writing I���ve ever received is, ���Knock ���em dead with that lead sentence.������ ��� Whitney Balliett

���An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.��� ��� Stephen King

���The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.��� ��� Blaise Pascal

���Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.��� ��� Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

���Get your character is trouble in the first sentence and out of trouble in the last sentence.��� ��� Barthe DeClements

���Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.��� ���Nancy Ann Dibble

���If you start with a bang, you won���t end with a whimper.��� ��� T.S. Eliot

���In nearly all good fiction, the basic ��� all but inescapable ��� plot form is this: A central character wants something, goes after it despite opposition (perhaps including his own doubts), and so arrives at a win, lose, or draw.��� ��� John Gardner

���Don���t mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion ��� many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.��� ��� Stanley Schmidt

���It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.��� ��� William Faulkner

���First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!��� ��� Ray Bradbury

���One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them).��� ��� Damon Knight

���I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.��� ��� Stephen King

���The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.��� ��� Mickey Spillane

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"Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write." - Rob Bignell

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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