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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers...more

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Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

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1. Write every day2. Write what interests you.3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.)4. Write with hones...more

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I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creati...more

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We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

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A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what o...more

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I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, "Let your characters grow. Up." And good ...more