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You don’t have to be a great writer, just a persistent one.
Rian Johnson, writer/director of Looper, The Brothers Bloom, and Brick (via ronenreblogs)
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov (via annamckeating)
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
James Joyce (via admultosannos)
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
Voltaire (via amandaonwriting)
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Accentual-Alliterative Verse
Poetry that relies on lines of four accented syllables, two on each side of a caesura- mid-line pause. The lines don’t rhyme, but the first three and often the fourth accented syllables alliterate.
-Wendy Bishop, Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry
