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“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.” Louise Brooks

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. Anne Rice

In your wardrobe hang your brains. Lucian Freud

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing. Jane...

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.” Mae West

Don't let people's compliments go to your head and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. Matt Mitrione

Then how did Romantasy become the new hottest thing? It broke all the rules. Talk to any agent and they are looking for stories that break the rules. Ie combine genres and create something new. The only rule really is make your readers happy...

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you and, therefore your greatest strength. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

No matter what you do, people are always going to have something negative to say about it. You could spend your life constantly trying to seek people's approval and validation, but there is always going to be someone that has something negative...

The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something. Debbi Fields

“Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.” Marcus Aurelius

My life needs editing. Mort Sahl

“The danger of the mind to trick one into thinking all the bad things we imagine are facts when in truth, they are just thoughts which are, in turn, a product of our experience. We exist separately from our thoughts.” Elizabeth Day