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Creative writing Quotes

"The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it"

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth"

"The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings"

"Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry."

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem comes from the fullness of life"

"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up "

"The writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."

"The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting."

"Writing is the craft that defies technology"

"Although every great writer will recognized as unique, the fact is that the art of literature is not just an individual voice but a relationship between writer and reader"

"To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic"

"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography"

"Every story has three parts: The beginning, the middle, and the twist."

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