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Category: For Writers

Quotes: Joe Konrath

July 27, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

… the only two groups required in a reader and writer relationship is the reader and the writer. Everyone else[…]

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Writerly advice

June 21, 2014 Geoff For Writers

A reader emailed me: Hello Geoff, … I am looking at putting my idea of a story down on paper[…]

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Quotes: Jim Crace

June 15, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Successful writers are only rarely in the middle of difficult paragraphs. Most of our time is spent prevaricating and whining[…]

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Rejection slips

May 24, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Fun

We’ve all had ’em. Even the greats. Schadenfreude perhaps, but it’s cheering to see just how wrong publishers can be[…]

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Quote: Samuel Johnson

March 21, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson .

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Quote: Julian Barnes

March 1, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them.[…]

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Quotes: William Faulkner

February 25, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate – the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is[…]

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Quotes: Thomas Mann

January 29, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann .

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Quotes: Edward Gibbon

January 15, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write[…]

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Quote: P D James

January 2, 2014 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. P D James

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