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ray bradbury

My stories run up and bite me in the leg. I respond by writing them down – everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
– Ray Bradbury

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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
– Dorothy Parker

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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
– George Orwell

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Karen_Blixen

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

~ Karen Blixen (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962)

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cdrinkerbowen

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

– Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Being a writer… – featured quote

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Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

– Catherine Drinker Bowen

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A writer starts a book
A writer begins a book.
A reader finishes it.

 

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I write because…

I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still.

(1948)

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  • Welcome!
    • To the blog
  • Books so far published…
    • The Hilda books…
    • Science Fiction books
      • Green Haven
      • The Story of the Mimosa
      • A Girl Named Sandy – Science Fiction
      • Wanted: hero
      • Wanted: adventurer
      • From Time To Time
    • Fantasy books
      • Clara’s Eyes
      • Till Death Us Do Join
      • The Devil’s Diary
      • The Devil’s Diary 2
      • Frankie and Francis
      • The Magic of the Bull
      • Tindaya
      • Baba Yaga
    • Steampunk books
      • Bactine
      • Lily Marin short stories – 1
      • Lily Marin short stories – 2
      • Lily Marin – The Novel
      • Aeroparts factory
    • Miscellaneous books
      • A Midsummer Night Adventure
      • Breaktime Bites
      • Charisma The Young Witch
      • Who killed the clown?
      • Quay Hotel
  • Contact…
    • Subscribe to new posts
    • Mail me about new books please
    • My Dutch site / Mijn nederlandse site
  • Pages…
    • About Paul Kater
    • Cover-art images
    • Hilda merchandise
    • More writers, books etc.
    • Pictures
    • Writer’s Café…
    • Writer’s Café – tips and tricks
    • Privacy Policy
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