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“We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.”
― Walt Stanchfield

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”
― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."

(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)”
― T.C. Boyle

“We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?"

[Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)]”
― Ken Kesey

“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

“The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.”
― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun, or to be subversive or to get turned on to something. It's just like doing math at school. I mean, how often do we sit down and do trigonometry for fun, to relax. I've thought about this, the domination of the literary arts by theory over the past 25 years -- which I detest -- and it's as if you have to be a critic to mediate between the author and the reader and that's utter crap. Literature can be great in all ways, but it's just entertainment like rock'n'roll or a film. It is entertainment. If it doesn't capture you on that level, as entertainment, movement of plot, then it doesn't work. Nothing else will come out of it. The beauty of the language, the characterisation, the structure, all that's irrelevant if you're not getting the reader on that level -- moving a story. If that's friendly to readers, I cop to it.”
― T.C. Boyle

“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

[Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007]”
― Cormac Mccarthy

“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic."

[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]”
― Susanna Clarke

“[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words, the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal of drudgery in even the most inspired, the most noble, the most distinguished writing. Read what the great ones have said about their jobs; how they never sit down to their work without a sigh of distress and never get up from it witout a sigh of relief. Do you imagine that your Muse is forever flamelike -- breathing the inspired word, the wonderful situation, the superb solution into your attentive ear? ... Believe me, my poor boy, if you wait for inspiration in our set-up, you'll wait for ever.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death on the Air and Other Stories

“Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death on the Air and Other Stories

“MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.”
― John Rember, MFA in a Box

“Y algo golpeaba en mi alma,
fiebre o alas perdidas,
y me fui haciendo solo,
descifrando
aquella quemadura
y escribí la primera línea vaga,
vaga, sin cuerpo, pura,
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pura sabiduría
del que no sabe nada,
y vi de pronto
el cielo
desgranado
y abierto.”
― Pablo Neruda, Isla Negra: A Notebook

“The elusive quality we call talent has minimal impact on your chances of becoming a full-time writer. What truly counts are your skill set and mindset.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“If there’s a secret to success, it’s this: Don’t aim to impress; aim to engage. Storytelling is the art of emotional exchange. To truly connect, you must be willing to share.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“Building a loyal following matters more than achieving bestseller status, winning literary awards, or chasing other vanity metrics. True fans are invaluable. They’re not just a means to financial independence—they’re the reason you write.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“I don’t question my calling, no matter the difficulties or setbacks. I write because that’s who I am.
We enjoy doing what we’re good at—that’s the key to lasting success.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“Great stories draw us into their world and never let go. They continue to influence us long after the last page or the rolling credits. They grow on us, becoming a part of us. They create shared experiences, allowing us to build bridges with others and form communities. Behind their magic lies a science—something we can study, understand, and master.”
― Will Raywood, The Natural Laws of Story: Master the Art and Science of Engaging Narratives

“AI is an abomination of creativity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space for AI art, but AI trash passed as human art, is an abomination of creativity - for our imperfections bear the keynote of truth. Art is a testament to human struggle - remove the human, and it's art no more. Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Art is a testament to human struggle – remove the human, and it’s art no more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“We can make a separate space for AI art, but AI trash passed as human art, is an abomination of creativity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“If I don’t have blue, I’ll just use red.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Healing isn't becoming someone new, it's reclaiming the parts of you that were buried under survival.”
― Marbella barajas