writing-quotes

Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life.

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

Don__ let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

You can__ undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

Creativity is magic in the making.

Creativity is divine.

Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

Learning is essential for living the life you love.

Audiences will admire your character__ strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

Suspense doesn__ always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Backstory is like a flavour you can__ quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it__ there and it enhances the flavour, but it__ intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book. What you need is subtlety.

Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It__ that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.

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