Writing

The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story…to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

Stephen King

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

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In my view, stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.

Stephen King

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…what people say often conveys their character to others in ways of which they–the speakers–are completely unaware.

Stephen King

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Prefer the specific to the general,the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.

Strunk and White

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Not only is the preposition acceptable at the end, sometimes it is more effective in that spot than anywhere else.

Strunk and White

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The split infinitive is another trick of rhetoric in which the ear must be quicker than the handbook. Some infinitives seem to improve on being split,…

Strunk and White

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…people who don’t know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll.

Lynne Truss

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Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. This is the elusive "ear" of a skilled writer-the tacit sense of style…

Steven Pinker

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