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“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― The Virginian
― The Virginian
“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It鈥檚 ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
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“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“... 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.”
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“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.”
― The American Poet Who Went Home Again
― The American Poet Who Went Home Again
“I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.”
― The American Poet Who Went Home Again
― The American Poet Who Went Home Again
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It's the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Many writers write because they鈥檝e been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil鈥檚 defense and god鈥檚 accusations. The guards at the king鈥檚 heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.鈥 It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“If I can write, who possibly can鈥檛. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“In the end, our legacy will not be based on rank or sales but by those who cherish our stories and the impact of our words.”
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“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.”
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“We writers write stories on the people we come across in life. We meet many people and each person leaves behind a part of himself or herself with us. And then one day the writer's life becomes a story!”
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“A writer observes. A writer records for posterity. The moments in the transience of the labyrinth of time that would go unrecorded otherwise! A writer records for value. A writer records for sentimentalism. A writer tries in earnest to carry the emotions and sentiments that make us what we ultimately are. For what are we? Empty spaces in an atom!”
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“As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.”
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“On the one hand, passion is a bright flame, which inspires and nourishes us with an infinite amount of energy. At the same time, passion is directly related to scrupulous work, serious contemplation and active work of the brain. It is always a good thing when you know how to point passion in the right direction.”
― Finding Martin Eden: Travels to Find Myself
― Finding Martin Eden: Travels to Find Myself
“I continued, regardless: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another, with no loss of enthusiasm."
"What does that mean?"
"It takes real strength and ability to experience repeated failure and keep moving toward your goal, even when nothing appears to be coming of it, without losing enthusiasm. It signifies a desire for self-improvement; a need to constantly learn from your mistakes...”
― Finding Martin Eden: Travels to Find Myself
"What does that mean?"
"It takes real strength and ability to experience repeated failure and keep moving toward your goal, even when nothing appears to be coming of it, without losing enthusiasm. It signifies a desire for self-improvement; a need to constantly learn from your mistakes...”
― Finding Martin Eden: Travels to Find Myself
“Part of being a creative person is the hope that others might feel a deeper connection to themselves and the universe through your art.”
― The Hive
― The Hive
“As a human race are we falling down on our creative minds. Is it only visual effects and spectacle that attract people and not the vivid imagination that is needed to read and enjoy a book?”
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“Putting dashes around your dialogue instead of quotation marks does not make your dialogue better, because all you're doing is substituting one convention for another. But it does indicate you're a pretentious idiot who thinks it does.”
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“Words can be like gems or sticks. A coalition of words can become a diamond necklace or a broken picket fence, whichever way one wishes to use them, and as such, I use them for my works of fiction and poetry. Dark fantasy can be alluring but dark reality is sometimes unavoidable and can cascade one's imagination deep into the hollowed skulls that litter the subsoil beneath our feet, to be returned once again to the world in the voice of a poet.”
― Ada & Eddie: A Novel
― Ada & Eddie: A Novel
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