Writing Quote by Ernest Hemingway: Don’t Judge Your Writing Until the Next Day

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”

— Ernest Hemingway

(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) 

 Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Shannon Hale: Becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

"Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice."

 
  — Shannon Hale

(Born: January 26, 1974)

Shannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Shannon Hale: Writing a First Draft

"Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."

 
  — Shannon Hale

(Born: January 26, 1974)

Shannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Christina Lauren: Write What Makes You Excited

"Run your own race. Don't worry about how fast someone else writes, how much another author makes, how many followers another author has. Write what makes you excited, and the enthusiasm will come through on the page."

— Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling American author duo of contemporary fiction, teen fiction and romance novels. Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Devi S. Laskar: Ignore the Naysayers

"Don't give up, and don't lose your stubborn belief that you have a story worth telling. I've had so many people tell me over so many years that I didn't have the qualities needed to be a writer. All of my writer friends and I have one thing in common: We didn't listen to the naysayers. We kept writing. And eventually we have all been published."

— Devi S. Laskar

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Writing Quote by Michael Moorcock: Bad Writer Big Ideas

"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas."

 
 — Michael Moorcock

(born 18 December 1939)

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and '70s Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Michael Moorcock: Fiction Writing Techniques

"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution."

 
 — Michael Moorcock

(born 18 December 1939)

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and '70s. Wikipedia

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