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#1

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

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#2

“If you have ever been disappointed in a badly-made setting, you know the felling of betrayal and the sting of wasted time. When you invest time and money in a fictional work, only to discover the world is poorly made, it's a betrayal of your trust.”
― Steven Savage, Way With Worlds Book 1: Crafting Great Fictional Settings

tags: reading, trust, worldbuilding, writing-advice

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#3

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing-advice

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#4

“I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-life, writing-process

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#5

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: be-terse, writing-advice

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#6

“Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.”
― Amy Joy

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-process-writing-advice

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#7

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”
― M. Kirin

tags: inspiration, writer, writer-inspiration, writing, writing-advice

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#8

“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time - or the tools - to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing-advice

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#9

“Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing-advice

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#10

“The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.”
― Lloyd Alexander

tags: fantasy, inspiration, world-building

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#11

“One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than details that I care about. I#d say that's key to world-building.”
― Jessica Andersen

tags: world-building

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#12

“When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!”
― Ace Antonio Hall

tags: authors, life, plan, world-building, write

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#13

“A mystery reader, confronted with a large mass of sudden detail, is going to go—subconsciously, at least—”Aha! somewhere in all of this the writer has planted a Clue!”, and look for that; a reader trained exclusively in mainstream literary fiction is likely to say, “Aha! all this emphasis must point to something of Thematic Importance!”, but an experienced reader of science fiction is going to assume that he or she is meant to take all of those details and out of them construct a world.

Which is why the writer of a science-fiction mystery with literary ambitions is trying to do a quadruple somersault off the trapeze without a net.”
― Debra Doyle

tags: clue, complexity, detail, genre, literary, mystery, science-fiction, theme, world-building, writing

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#14

“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

tags: author-life, dangerous, naming-characters, prolific, prolific-authors, world-building, writing-life

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#15

“First rule of exposition: Less is more.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: characterisation, characterization, exposition, world-building, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-advice, writing-quotes

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#16

“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: language, lord-of-the-rings, worldbuilding

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#17

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-process

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#18

“Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.”
― Terry Pratchett

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#19

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: advice, criticism, writing, writing-advice

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#20

“Don't get it right, get it written.”
― Ally Carter

tags: writing-advice

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#21

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: inspirational, writing-advice

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#22

“it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it”
― Alfred Lansing

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-humor, writing-life

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#23

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing, writing-advice

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#24

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”
― Warren Adler

tags: writing-advice, writing-life, writing-process

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#25

“Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: editing, writing, writing-advice

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#26

“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.”
― Arthur Miller

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-quotes

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#27

“Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing-advice

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#28

“I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)”
― Adam Savage

tags: collections, dirty-words, file-cards, lists

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#29

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: answers, correct, google, internet, libarary, librarian, librarians, right, search

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#30

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: advice, belief, internet, net, paradox, scepticism

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