"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

Writing, Creativity, Imagination, Learning, Curiosity

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"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."

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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

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"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

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"Can't get away from your own self."

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"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."

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"In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell."

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"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."

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"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."

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