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Here's a different kind of chain for Aiap, all you have to dois find a quote(1 or 2) on writers or writing to add along to the thread.After a while it should be a good mix of one liners/thoughts...

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Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have...

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To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going...

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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things arent. Im not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life....

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There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, no one can agree what they are. - Somerset Maugham MattAiap

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Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless...

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People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions...

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On Language..."Whenever I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, contemptuously, "It means exactly what I want it to mean." (Lewis Carrol)Stretch Your Quill!

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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, circa 65...

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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, --happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. -...

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Early one in the posts Matt mentioned a quote from Faulkner. Now I know why I've always loved him so much in that I think like he does as far as needing to know and show the "why" of people's motives.

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Yes, I like that about Faulkner, too. Another fave American author of mine is Tennessee Williams.CassiaFellowship of the pen

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The sinister thing about writing is that it starts off seeming so easy and ends up being so hard. - L. Rust HillsI have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils...

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)AIAP

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Writing is like cooking...if you spill something, you should make it look like part of the act. --John Keeble We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip...

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Words are the color of all great artists...~Unknown

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If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.~ Kingsley AmisOne of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down."~ Norman...

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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words...

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"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.""I am not young enough to know everything." J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.AIAP

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Whatever you can do, or dream you can do,...

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