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250 Things You Should Know About Writing QUOTES

250 Things You Should Know About Writing QUOTES

1 " The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

2 " Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

3 " Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up to standing. This takes time. Stories need to find the right home, the right audience. Stick with it. Quitting is for sad pandas. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

4 " Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

5 " Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

6 " Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

7 " The audience wants a safety blanket. It's the storyteller's job to take that safety blanket and choke them with it until they experience a profound narrative orgasm. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

8 " Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

9 " Plot is like Soylent Green: it's made of people. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

10 " You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race your ran halfway through. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

11 " Your first draft can and should look like a fucking warzone. That's okay. Don't sweat it, because you survived. Put differently, that first draft of yours has permission to suck. Go forth and care not. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

12 " The beginning's easy because it's like -- BOOM, some shit just happened. The ending's easy because -- POW, all the shit that happened just lead to this. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

13 " Good story thrives on protagonists in pain. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

14 " Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.) "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing

15 " A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster. "

― Chuck Wendig , 250 Things You Should Know About Writing