“The first draft is just telling yourself the story.”—Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett on the First Draft
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Tag Archives: Writing Quotes
Edith Wharton on Dialogue in Fiction
“Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.”–Edith Wharton
Gustave Flaubert on the Sound He Hears Within
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”-Gustave Flaubert
Truman Capote: Inner Music
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”-Truman Capote
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