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[samsevenwrites]

I’m never bored with talking about sex. Or writing about it. I’m almost as interested in writing about sex as I am in performing it. I love writing about sex.

Clive Barker, in The Guardian

[prettywrittenthings]

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

[prettywrittenthings]

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

[prettywrittenthings]

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

[fictionbookslibrarieskid]

[imademyhomeinthepagesofbook-blog]

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

[prettywrittenthings]

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Maya Angelou

[mywebwriters]

Writing is not the same a storytelling

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

           - Anne McCaffrey