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Julia I.

Phenomenal! I LOVE it and I absolutely love the structure! Blown away — you literally nailed this! Wow! This three-layer approach is so brilliant, thank you! NO changes, I love it as is! This is perfection! I thank you for this incredible job well done! You have once again blown me away. How did you gather all of that information from what I gave you? You NAILED THIS! Your work is tremendous and I thank you! I’d love to send you a little something to say thanks. Do you have a mailing address I can send to? I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.