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“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation”
― Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
― Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm

“People very often say to me, 'How did you do it, how did you raise a baby and write a book?' And the answer is - I didn't do housework for four years. I am not Superwoman. And um, living in squalor, that was the answer.”
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“A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you're all alone. The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen. It was that affirmation that always amazed me. Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage 鈥 the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.”
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“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.”
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“The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.”
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
― Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction

“I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, "How do you write a book?" The answer is, you just write.”
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“Writing on dark themes is not as easy as one might think; you have to live the worst and the most terrifying nightmares, again and again, till they consume you entirely and become an inseparable part of you that you start dreading.”
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“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don鈥檛 embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That鈥檚 damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when you鈥檙e alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help.”
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“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep fissure waiting to erupt.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.”
― Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft
― Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft

“Authors are akin to caterpillars; they wrap themselves in a cocoon and emerge with a butterfly or sometimes with a moth...”
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“Your motto: Be Bold, be Free, be Truthful”
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
― If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“Reading is the author's gift from the reader. Writing is the reader's gift from the author.”
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“English: "If I believed slanders told by my Czech language school marks, I could not even think of writing books."
膶esky: 鈥濳dybych uv臎艡il pomluv谩m, co o m臎 prohla拧uj铆 zn谩mky z 膷e拧tiny, nemohl bych ani pomyslet na psan铆 knih.”
― Wesm铆rn媒 omyl
膶esky: 鈥濳dybych uv臎艡il pomluv谩m, co o m臎 prohla拧uj铆 zn谩mky z 膷e拧tiny, nemohl bych ani pomyslet na psan铆 knih.”
― Wesm铆rn媒 omyl

“As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.”
― A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
― A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

“Make your heroes ambitious, always looking for more success and uniqueness.
To write the best story you can, think of making your hero, or heroes, have an ambitious for an unlimited success.
-How to write the best story-”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages
To write the best story you can, think of making your hero, or heroes, have an ambitious for an unlimited success.
-How to write the best story-”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages

“Deal with your readers that they
are smart, and write a language that
suits their intelligence.
- How to write the best story-”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages
are smart, and write a language that
suits their intelligence.
- How to write the best story-”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages

“Choose noble goals for your heroes.
Make them Sympathize with the poor, collaborates on the good goals, always step forward for the good actions, the first ones to do the right things, care to reserve others rights, and respect the laws, traditions and values.”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages
Make them Sympathize with the poor, collaborates on the good goals, always step forward for the good actions, the first ones to do the right things, care to reserve others rights, and respect the laws, traditions and values.”
― How to be a Story Writer: A guide to successful story writing for all ages
“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”
― A Short Guide to Writing About Art
― A Short Guide to Writing About Art

“Sentada enfrente de mis borradores, de repente me invadi贸 el p谩nico como cuando un mago descubre que acaba de perder sus poderes por completo. Ahora simplemente no pod铆a penetrar en el mundo distante de las letras, a mi alrededor ocurr铆an cambios incesantemente, como las peque帽as ondas del agua. Siempre hab铆a pensado en un triunfo repentino, como Al铆 Baba que s贸lo con leer un conjuro abri贸 la puerta de la cueva del tesoro, como Bill Gates que en una noche se convirti贸 en archimillonario, como Gong Li que a mi edad ya hab铆a subyugado a decenas de millones de hombres blancos con su magn铆fica belleza sin hablar una sola palabra de ingl茅s.”
― Shanghai Baby
― Shanghai Baby

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger tale.”
― Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft
― Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft

“Writing a novel is like a two-year love affair. The novel has a formation period ranging from instantaneous falling-in-love to decades. It then generally takes a year or two to write, during which it is consuming, riveting, and eventful. Once done, there is a recovery period. No other story can enter; one must use the hole left behind as a time of settling and reformation. When ready, we can move on, although, the essence of the experience will remain with us forever.”
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“Writing a book is a job, like any other. It requires research, analysis, testing, and entire days in front of a laptop, typing, reading, editing, proofreading, etc. If books were free, writers wouldn't have time to write, because they would be too busy, working on something else. It is hard to sacrifice your social life and weekends to write books when you need to keep a job or more at the same time. In this sense, when an author offers a book, he is disrespecting himself, insulting his past efforts to get him where he is now, and devaluing his own work. The idea that ebooks shouldn't cost more than a few dollars is actually already an underestimation of the value offered. And the idea that a person should get a book for free is contradictory to the purpose of obtaining value from the reading. That is why writers should never offer books and readers should always be willing to pay anything for what they want to read.”
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“I believe that the secret to becoming successful in life is taking it one step at a time, do not look at the challenge just concentrate on getting through each step at a time, learning from your mistakes as you go forward. By doing this, you will reach your goal. Remember, quitters never win and winners never quit. Also, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
― Superfoods: Superfoods For Super Health
― Superfoods: Superfoods For Super Health

“The success of any endeavour is related to the depth of the emotional and intellectual connection you have with it. Very often, writers select topics to write about that diverge from what interests them. Or to talk about subjects of which they鈥檙e not firmly grounded 鈥 probably driven by some egoistic motives. What ends up happening to them is that they do not create decent work.”
― Unpublished: Top 18 Tips to Take You from An Idea to Becoming A Self-Published Author
― Unpublished: Top 18 Tips to Take You from An Idea to Becoming A Self-Published Author
“Will working impulsively in velvet-lined ravines under tonight鈥檚 harvest moon yield any hearty hale to conciliate the ambitious rumblings of tomorrow?”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Working on a book can yield some unexpected and welcome results.”
― Hollywood Gamers: Digital Convergence in the Film and Video Game Industries
― Hollywood Gamers: Digital Convergence in the Film and Video Game Industries
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