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  1. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble
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  2. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
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  3. Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The

    The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.
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  4. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.
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  5. David Almond _ My Name Is Mina

    And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!
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  6. Doris Lessing _ The Golden Notebook

    Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.
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  7. Doris Lessing _ The Golden Notebook

    I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.{So why write novels? Indeed, why! I suppose we have to go on living ...}
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  8. Marshall McLuhan _ The Medium is the Massage

    Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.
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  9. Brenda Ueland _ If You Want to Write: A Book

    Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word
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  10. William Blake _ The Marriage of Heaven and

    The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote."
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  11. Thomas Harris _ Red Dragon

    You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
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  12. Charles Bukowski _ Women

    Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
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