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1 " The day was hot, the sun high, and the silence was so thick you'd have thought the sky didn't have any air in it. "
― Alice Blanchard , Darkness Peering
2 " Step away from the keyboard.Put the pen down.Smell the roses.Then you can write about the roses. "
― Alice Blanchard
3 " My eyes fixed on my friend’s necklace, something I hadn’t noticed before—a tiny gold chain with a gold word at the base of her neck. Aires, gold lassos for letters, riding her pulse. My thoughts felt about thumb-sized. "
― Alice Blanchard , The Stuntman's Daughter: And Other Stories
4 " Write what you love, love what you write, and let the chips fall where they may. "
5 " The more you write fiction, the deeper you will dig, until you begin to understand pieces of your own life. "
6 " If you suffer for your writing, don't forget to write about your suffering. "
7 " Writing for me is not an option. I had to write yesterday. I have to write today. I will have to write tomorrow. "
8 " Words count" is the opposite of "word count. "
9 " How to be a writer: Love words. Be brave: you're going to suck. Listen to criticism, especially when it stings. Be humble. You have to face a blank page every day. Get off the internet. "
10 " Mood. Cupcake and a bad book. "
11 " Writing advice: Open your laptop, open your mind. "
12 " How to cope with rejection. Be thankful for any feedback at all.Take the good stuff, ignore the rest.Get this: writing is revision."Catch 22" got 22 rejections.The future lies ahead. "
13 " Mood: pen and paper. "
14 " I love writing. I get to invent worlds where I pit good against evil, live inside my imagination for hours, and feel more optimistic toward the end of the day. "
15 " Time slips away. My day gets carved into pieces. Writers crave time above all things. "
16 " Life's hard, but when the writing's good, when I'm at my deepest level, the story unfolds like a dream before me, and I'm lifted by it. "
17 " I murdered one of my darlings and buried it under 50 scratch marks with a Bic Grip. "
