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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.on Plot

I guarantee you that no modern story scheme, even plotlessness, will give a reader genuine satisfaction, unless one of those old-fashioned plots is smuggled in somewhere. I don’t praise plots as...

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Roger Zelazny on Ideas

“One of my standard — and fairly true — responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or...

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Katherine Anne Porter on Endings

“I always write my last lines, my last paragraph, my last page first, and then I go back and work towards it.” ~ Katherine Anne Porter Source: Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers by...

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William S. Burroughs on the Roles of a Writer

“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.” ~ William S....

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Agatha Christie on Writing Plans

“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ~ Agatha Christie Source: The Quotations Page: Agatha Christie Filed under: To Plot or Not to Plot, Writing Advice Tagged: creativity,...

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Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum on Plot Necessities

“Not every story has explosions and car chases. That’s why they have nudity and espionage.” ~ Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08 Source: The Quotations Page Filed under: About Writing, To...

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Isaac Asimov on the Importance of Improvization

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” ~ Isaac Asimov, Foundation Source: Fantasy & Science Fiction Quotations: Isaac Asimov Quotations Filed under: Beginning...

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