When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?

Pat Conroy

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Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

Allen Guy Wilcox

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His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.

(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)

Herbert A. Wise

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Writer's Rhyme

Word by word
line by line,
I'm gonna make
this writing fine.

I'll reread
'til I know
that each sentence
says it so.

Check the grammar
and the meaning;
be the critic;
do the screening.

Dictionary's
not for show;
Helps me get
those words to flow.

Watch the diet;
hem it in.
Do not fear
to make it thin.

Simple is
a goal to praise;
Let's untie
that wordy phrase.

Every word
let's be sure
follows the last
with meaning pure.

"Won't be easy,"
so 'tis said,
but effort will
put me ahead.

Word by word
line by line,
I'm gonnna make
this writing fine,

even though
it takes some time,
I'm gonna make this writing fine;

I'm gonna make
this writing fine.

Peter Siviglia

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Aku membayangkan takdir menjebak kita dalam sekoci di tengah lautan. Kita tak memiliki apapun selain satu sama lain. Lalu kita akan saling bercerita, hingga kusadari aku membunuhmu dengan kebosanan, kisah yang sama yang selalu kuulang. Kuharap kita segera bertemu dengan daratan dan kutebus dosaku dengan kisah yang akan kutuliskan. Tentang kita yang pernah bertahan di lautan.

Citra Rizcha Maya

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Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.

Christy Hall

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It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard.
‘Is Leela self who write that,’ Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.’
It read:

NOTICE
NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS!
ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS!

Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.’
That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation marks. She is like that, sahib.

V.S. Naipaul

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How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again.

L.F. Young

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Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

Chuck Wendig

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Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

Chuck Wendig

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