The hardest part of bringing a book to life isn’t the editing. It’s the removing. It’s cutting the words you laboured over, the sentences you loved, the little turns of phrase you tucked away. It’s looking at your darlings, your clever lines, your beautiful moments, your 'surely this has to stay' sentences, and realizing that … Continue reading Killing my darlings one by one…
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My brain will happily invent an entire fictional kingdom at 2am but will refuse to come up with the name of a perfectly normal character.
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“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” Jules Verne (French novelist, poet, and playwright)
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.– E.L. Doctorow
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