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The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, "We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction. Humphrey Carpenter
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish. Jack London
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. Isak Dinesen
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999] A. Whitney Brown
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is... Maya Angelou
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Thomas Pynchon
Alan Dean Foster quote: "The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing. Alan Dean Foster
Ray Bradbury quote: "Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. Ray Bradbury
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the... Carl Sagan
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be. Steven Brust
In thirty years Iraq too has gone from being among the most modern and secular of Arab countries -with women working, artists thriving, journalists writing- into a squalid playpen for a megalomaniac. Fareed Zakaria
Ray Bradbury quote: "You must stay drunk on the writing so that reality doesn't..."
You must stay drunk on the writing so that reality doesn't destroy you. Ray Bradbury
Jim Goad quote: "If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why..."
If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit. Jim Goad
And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and, so far as literature can, to reality, needs to have seen many churches in order to paint one church and for the portrayal of a single sentiment requires many individuals. For if art is long and life is short, we may on the other hand say that, if inspiration is short, the sentiments which it has to portray are not of much longer duration. It is our passions which draw... Marcel Proust
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can..."
There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

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