Will Shetterly quotes
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“Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.”
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“There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.”
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“It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.”
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“The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.”
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“In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.”
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“Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.”
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“It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.”
-- Will ShetterlySource : Will Shetterly (2004). “Nevernever”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.”
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Source : Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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Source : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai (2004). “Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation”, TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
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