"Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait." "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." "First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!" "I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly." ( 7 Toni Morrison Quotes for Writers and About Writing) It is there that we authors do most of our lying." "My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. "If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer." "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." "A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God." He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer." "Any man who keeps working is not a failure.
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