Rick Killian

Lessons from a ghost . . .

Writing is most of all an exercise in determination,
first to get the job done,
second to get the job done right.

—Tom Clancy

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No iron can stab the heart with such force
as a period put just at the right place.

—Isaac Babel

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If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.

—Benjamin Franklin

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Everything is copy.

—Nora Ephron

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Genius gives birth,
talent delivers.

–Jack Kerouac

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If you love words, love to read,
and have read all of your life,
you’ve already had a
full-time course in writing.

—Richard Rhodes

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If you want to write, if you want
to create, you must be the
most sublime fool that God
ever turned out and sent
rambling. You must write every
single day of your life. You
must read dreadful dumb
books and glorious books,
and let them wrestle in
beautiful fights inside your
head, vulgar one moment,
brilliant the next. You must lurk
in libraries and climb the stacks
like ladders to sniff books like
perfumes and wear books like
hats upon your crazy heads.
I wish you a wrestling match
with your Creative Muse that
will last a lifetime.

―Ray Bradbury

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