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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.


Dorothy Parker


#authors #elements-of-style #favors #grammar #happiness

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #empowerment #feminism #gender #history

Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#castles #creativity #richelle #richelle-goodrich #worlds

To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#richelle #richelle-goodrich #writers #writing #richelle-goodrich

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.


Lisi Harrison


#revenge

I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!


Brooklyn Hudson


#thrillers #writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-craft

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.


Elizabeth Sims


#books #writing #writing-craft #writing-craft

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.


Seeley James


#job #writers #writing #writing-craft

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.


M. H. Abrams


#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.


Victoria Abril


#director #face #following #hands #happened






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