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Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Writing 101 quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.Yet some psychologists and behavioral economists seem to think that procrastination is a disease to be remedied and cured. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing 101 quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Annabeth has my number,' Sadie said. 'Which, honestly, brother, is a much easier solution than writing invisible hieroglyphs on your friend's hand. What were you thinking? ~ Rick Riordan
Writing 101 quotes by Rick Riordan
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others. ~ Ralph Keyes
Writing 101 quotes by Ralph Keyes
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. ~ Stephen King
Writing 101 quotes by Stephen King
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life. ~ Michael Vick
Writing 101 quotes by Michael Vick
sometimes the very best thing to do, I find, is to turn off the news and keep writing our own stories and lullabies. ~ Shauna Niequist
Writing 101 quotes by Shauna Niequist
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter. ~ Evan Williams
Writing 101 quotes by Evan Williams
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write. ~ Aimee Bender
Writing 101 quotes by Aimee Bender
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. ~ Cameron Conaway
Writing 101 quotes by Cameron Conaway
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. ~ Isaac Asimov
Writing 101 quotes by Isaac Asimov
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. ~ Adrianne Palicki
Writing 101 quotes by Adrianne Palicki
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. ~ Kimberly Willis Holt
Writing 101 quotes by Kimberly Willis Holt
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. ~ Carl Hiaasen
Writing 101 quotes by Carl Hiaasen
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. ~ Robert Anderson
Writing 101 quotes by Robert Anderson
I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you. ~ Jane Austen
Writing 101 quotes by Jane Austen
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. ~ Annie Baker
Writing 101 quotes by Annie Baker
Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Writing 101 quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. ~ Edith Sitwell
Writing 101 quotes by Edith Sitwell
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It's not up to me to make the choice. I have the impression that the time is speading on past me more and more rapidly. I'm like a river that rolls on, dragging with it the trees that grow too close to its banks or dead calves one might have thrown into it or any kind of microbes that develop in it. I carry all that along with me and go on. It's the movement of painting that interests me, the dramatic movement from one effort to the next, even if those efforts are perhaps not pushed to their ultimate end. In some of my paintings I can say with certainty that the effort has been brought to its full weight and its conclusion, because there I have been able to stop the flow of time around me. I have less and less time, and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is,increasingly, something about what goes on in the movement of my thought. I've reached the moment, you see, when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. ~ Francoise Gilot
Writing 101 quotes by Francoise Gilot
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out ... ~ Kingsley Amis
Writing 101 quotes by Kingsley Amis
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. ~ Fred Saberhagen
Writing 101 quotes by Fred Saberhagen
It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire ... "Alice Cooper for President" ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes. ~ Alice Cooper
Writing 101 quotes by Alice Cooper
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
Writing 101 quotes by Sylvia Plath
Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing. ~ Zooey Deschanel
Writing 101 quotes by Zooey Deschanel
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record. ~ Frank Iero
Writing 101 quotes by Frank Iero
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. ~ Tom Stoppard
Writing 101 quotes by Tom Stoppard
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ~ A.E. Van Vogt
Writing 101 quotes by A.E. Van Vogt
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Writing 101 quotes by Michel De Montaigne
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. ~ Padma Lakshmi
Writing 101 quotes by Padma Lakshmi
I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves. ~ Melanie Martinez
Writing 101 quotes by Melanie Martinez
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything. ~ John Mellencamp
Writing 101 quotes by John Mellencamp
Relationships are the flavors of life. ~ Pawan Mishra
Writing 101 quotes by Pawan Mishra
The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about. ~ Marty Rubin
Writing 101 quotes by Marty Rubin
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man. ~ Ezra Pound
Writing 101 quotes by Ezra Pound
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