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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Writers on Writing

August 9, 2009 – 8:19 pm

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment [...]

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If You Don’t Write Fiction by Charles Phelps Cushing

August 1, 2009 – 10:26 am

A Nose for News

A foxhound scents the trail of his game and tracks it straight to a killing. A lapdog lacks this capability. In the same way, there are breeds of would-be writers who never can acquire a “nose for news,” and others who, from the first day that they set foot in editorial rooms, [...]

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