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"There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths." --J.R.R. Tolkien
"I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story." -Ernest Hemingway
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Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. --Isaac Asimov
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. --Isaac Asimov
Time is the fire in which we burn. --Gene Roddenberry
Always be yourself... unless you suck. --Joss Whedon
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. --Ray Bradbury
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things. --Ray Bradbury
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. --Ray Bradbury
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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." --Isaac Asimov
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Anyone have any references for the asimov quotes? That thinking through the fingers, in particular, is so apt for me. I'd like a weblink, though.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T.S. Eliot
Confound him who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions. -- Plautus (200 BC) Posts: 340 | Registered: Jan 2008
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