Contents of A Writer's Mind

Reader, Writer, Christian, Wife. A writer's mind is a chaotic place to be, here are the contents of my own with the quotes of others.

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A great fictional world is the sum of details that to most readers are unknown.

Donald Maass

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The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

Edgar Wright

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A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is and you go with that. Left to our own devices, a writer would endlessly fiddle with a book, changing little thing after little thing.

Kimberly Pauley

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Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

Nona King

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“Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.”

— David Sedaris

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Likability is a factor when you’re choosing a roommate, but it’s not necessarily a factor when you’re creating a living character.

Margaret Atwood (via writingdotcoffee)

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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I’m always trying to picture things.

John Lydon

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Writers, when they write, need to approach things for the first time each time.

Natalie Goldberg (from Writing Down the Bones)

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Write while the heat is in you… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.

Henry David Thoreau

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Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

David Foster Wallace

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You go where the story leads you.

Stephen King

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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.

W.H. Auden

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

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It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.

Gerald Brenan

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Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett