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Quote for Today: Roger Rosenblatt
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November 6, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Anticipation, consequence, enlightening, foreshadowing, How to Write Great, meaning, power, Roger Rosenblatt, storytelling, surprise, unavoidable, understanding, unusual, writing
Quote for Today: Marie Rutkoski
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September 19, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: beauty, best, clarity, communication, delight, humanity, imagination, Marie Rutkoski, metaphor, priority, promise, pruning, sparkle, writing
Quote for Today: Philip Roth
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June 13, 2018 by katmcdaniel

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: art, Being Creative, bounce, fantasy, fiction, Inspiration, life, necessity, Philip Roth, process, writing
Quote for Today: Walter Farley
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May 23, 2018 by katmcdaniel

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: achievement, enjoy, enjoyment, fulfillment, humanity, love, passion, priorities, process, sharing, society, trouble, Walter Farley, writing
Quote for Today: Augusten Burroughs
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April 26, 2018 by katmcdaniel

I want to write something that means something to someone…that reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is…or …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Augusten Burroughs, clarity, create, empathy, expression, humanity, meaning, purpose, reminder, share, understanding, universality, voice, writing
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
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April 23, 2018 by katmcdaniel

But I must get back into the world of my creative mind: otherwise, in the world of pies & shin …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: boredom, create, creative, death, escape, feminine, Inspiration, mind, mindless, mundane, stuck, Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, writing
Quote for Today: Suzanne Berne
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April 20, 2018 by katmcdaniel

We are known, appreciated, even cherished by our favorite writers; every word of our favorite books seems to have been …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: author, communication, connection, empathy, favorite, humanity, inspire, intimacy, personal, reading, self, story, Suzanne Berne, writing

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