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Writing Quote Tuesday
Today’s quote comes from Isabel Allende:
“I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.”
—Isabel Allende
Writing Quote Tuesday
Today’s quote is from the prolific Joyce Carol Oates:
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I love this quote. I’ve always felt like I never know how my WIP truly begins until I finish it.
Writing Quote Tuesday
This week’s quote is as relevant to feminism as it is to writing. From the late Virginia Woolf:
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Writing Quote Tuesday
I love Eleanor Roosevelt. She founded my hometown, after all. I’d never heard this quote before today, though:
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Writing Quote Tuesday
This week’s quote comes from the wonderfully imaginative Lewis Carroll:
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“In some ways…people that don’t exist are much nicer than people that do.”
Love it! I think I might change “nicer” to “more fun to hang out with” if we were talking about my characters, though. Some of those guys are pure evil. 🙂
