Rob Bignell's Blog, page 83

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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What actually happens in a writer���s mind when he gets through fiddling and fuming and sits down to tackle the job must always remain a secret between himself and his Demon. ��� Christopher Morley

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There is no real ending. It���s just the place where you stop the story ��� Frank Herbert

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There���s no use just sitting down and waiting for an inspiration ��� You���ve got to play along. ��� Charlie Chaplin

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