It’s hard to predict exactly how a novel will be received, but there are always some surprises. I could not have predicted the brouhaha started by an Alaskan columnist over the fact that the University of Alaska Press published a …
Tag: Crazy as a Coot
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“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
Flannery O’Connor
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain -
And as imagination bodies forth
William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a nam -
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
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