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• Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Cities

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• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Desire

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Mistake, Writing

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

  John W. Campbell

  Home, Editors, Writing And Reading

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• The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Sisterhood

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Character, Trying

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• Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

  Guy Claxton

  Lying, Teaching, Reading

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

  Eudora Welty

  Reading, Heart, Writing

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to do. Like it seems self-evident that I'm a musician now, but it's a really hard path. It's almost impossible.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Reading, Writing, Lays

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• I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

  Tom T. Hall

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.

  David Elkind

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I know the action in the street is excitin'
  But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
  I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Jesus, Reading, Writing

  "Song: 'My Shot'". September 25, 2015.

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• What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Swimming

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Writing, People

  "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sarcastic, Reading, Writing

  "Writers on Writing". Book edited by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Believe, Writing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

  Robin McKinley

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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• So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Reading, Writing, Matter

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• There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.232, Anchor

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• She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Reading, Writing, Years

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Reading, Writing, Wild Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

  Matt Groening

  Believe, Reading, Writing

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