11 Jul 2023
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. — Victor J. Banis #inspirational #reading #writing
10 Jul 2023
A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader’s eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things. — Bill Barich #writing
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9 Jul 2023
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. — David Sedaris #reading #selfawareness #shortstories #writing
9 Jul 2023
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia,...
8 Jul 2023
A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten. — Phyllis A. Whitney #fiction #onfiction #onwriting #writing
