Rob Bignell's Blog, page 81

Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there���s prayer. ��� Sarah Waters

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Always carry a note-book. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. ��� Will Self

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I do not revise as I write. I just go and go and go until I finish the draft. If I feel there���s something I need to take care of, I make a note on a pad and go back and fix it when I���m done. ��� Stuart M. Kaminsky

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I always need a minimum of three drafts for a story or nonfiction work to approach finished form���.My ratio of throw away to keep can go as high as 20 to 1. ��� Charles Johnson

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I print it out, I mark it up and retype everything. It feels terribly inefficient most of the time, but I���ve found that I can���t just jump into a piece and add a scene or change a character���s action. ��� Stephanie Danler

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I never quite know when I���m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. ��� James Thurber

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My counsel is to force nothing and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure. ��� Goethe

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I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I���ve done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn���t look up ��� well, maybe once. ��� Isaac Asimov

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I prefer working in a small room. We have a family joke about it: In a small room thoughts grow great; in a great room thoughts grow small. ��� Lucien Price

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ��� Thomas Mann

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