February 2012
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“Writers are goofy-headed moon-units. Total fuckbrains, each and every one of us....”
– Chuck Wendig
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“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is...”
– Hugh Prather
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“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to...”
– Anne Bernays
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nothingrhymeswithmammoth asked: Seven, fourteen, fifteen.
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“…it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better....”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all...”
– John Irving
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“The reader is a person you need to charm. You better bring your good shit....”
– George Saunders
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Graphomania
a passion or urge to write
Etymology: Greek grapho ‘to write’
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“As I see it, a story of almost any kind should be like hypnosis. You fascinate...”
– Alan Moore
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“From things that happened and from things as they exist and from all the things...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Some people — and I am one of them — hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on...”
– Luke Angel
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“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– Nick Hornby