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No great work is impossible. The word it self says I'm possible.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Created on 2005-05-05 10:14:48 (#7018843), last updated 2006-01-14

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Name:	Lily Danderfluff of Willowbottom
Birthdate:	05-31
Location:	Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Website:	Fiction Press

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The complete babblings of an insane mind.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison

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

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967

Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid clichés like the plague.
~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ~Agatha Christie

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ~Don Marquis

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~Gustave Flaubert

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane