“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” ― Mark Twain
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
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