Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness … speak softly, and write any old word that wants to jump out of your nerves onto the page. Ray Bradbury
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Elliot
The writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in the yard if you want to express yourself. Zadie Smith
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts. John Updike

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