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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
-Leo Tolstoy
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-G.K. Chesterton

I want stories to startle and engage me within the first few sentences, and in their middle to widen or deepen or sharpen my knowledge of human activity, and to end by giving me a sensation of completed statement.
-John Updike
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
-A. Bronson Alcott

As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.
~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
-Sinclair Lewis
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