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No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader. If you’re not moved by your story, don’t expect your reader to be. Therefore, sob uncontrollably as you compose. Slice onions to abet the process. ~ Teddy Wayne

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Give your characters motivations. If you’re having trouble fleshing out your characters, continually ask yourself in each scene, “What does this character want?” ~ Teddy Wayne

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“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver

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““One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, working for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed, and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”

~ Stephen King

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“Remember that you don’t write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.” 

~ Flannery O’Conner

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only way you can do anything really good.”

~ William Faulkner

““Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters’ theses.”

~ Stephen King

“I believe a story almost always grows with me from a character; a certain kind of a person who always gets into trouble—or out—because he does certain sorts of things.” ~ Anne Shannon Monroe

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E. L. Doctorow

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“A major writer combines these three – storyteller, teacher, enchanter – but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov

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