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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.


Isaac Asimov


#writing #success

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.


Stephen King


#words #writing #words

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.


Thomas Jefferson


#words

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!


Terry Pratchett


#mainstream-lit #science-fiction #sf #writers #writing

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#writing #science

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.


Paul Di Filippo


#scifi #writing #writing-skills #science

What does he mean," I asked, "the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?" "You ask him," my father said. "Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep in the atom there's a little man sitting in a rocking chair reading the evening paper.


John Updike


#writer #science

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.


Mary Karr


#poet #writing-life #life

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.


E.M. Forster


#love #passion #writing #life

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.


Elizabeth Hardwick


#life






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