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List of Cliches

Worried about cliches? Here's a list of them!: http://t.co/ShwUaCO448 #Writing

— The Typing Type (@TypingType) February 5, 2014

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Novel Construction 101

Novel Construction 101 by C.S. Lakin: http://t.co/kM1RbDUhm1 #Writing

— The Typing Type (@TypingType) February 3, 2014

#writing #amwriting #novel #getpublished

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

Khaled Hosseini

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Five Ways to Re-Energize Out of a Writing Slump

In a Writing Slump? Five Ways to Re-Energize by Barbara D. Diggs: http://t.co/JM9OXAbxAI #Writing

— The Typing Type (@TypingType) February 1, 2014

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“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

Stephen King

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“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.”

Jeanette Winterson

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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?" And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

Neil Gaiman

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15 Unusual Words that Make Writers Swoon

15 unusual words that make writers swoon: http://t.co/33giij2i1Q #Writing

— The Typing Type (@TypingType) January 30, 2014

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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

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“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

Tim O'Brien

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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

Leonard Cohen

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“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”

Stephen Fry

"Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story."

John Penland Mahaffy

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"You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block."

John Rogers

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"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year."

Charles Lamb

#writing #writers #charles lamb #new year #goodbye 2013

6 Words for Love (in Ancient Greek)

TheThe Ancient Greeks' 6 Words for Love (by Roman Krznaric): http://t.co/iq9oFKbMGc #Writing #Words