JUDITH APPELBAUM With one exception, any publication opportunity you can seize is worth seizing ever-widening ripples move out from even the smallest splash. Something more like a self-contained plop is all you’re likely to get, however, if you resort to a vanity press. Go away from the project for at least a week. KENNETH ATCHITY It would be crazy to begin revising immediately after finishing the first draft, and counter to the way the mind likes to create.
HALLIE BURNETT Trollope said, “On the last day of each month recorded, every person in a work of fiction should be a month older than on the first.” We go with our characters wherever they lead us, and as time makes its mark on us, so it must on them. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
PAUL RUDNICK Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of people. As the NaNoWriMo deadline approaches, here are a few more quotes to motivate you to push to the last word: WILLIAM TREVOR By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself.
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