"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer."

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Source : "Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak". Book by Jayme Lynn Blaschke (p. 182), April 1, 2005.

Harlan Ellison

#Writing Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Tricks Quotes

“Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.”
“I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.”
“I put my head down and charge.”

Source : "Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2013.
“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”

Source : "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.
“If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!”
“As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more”
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
“It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”

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