Sol Stein Quotes

• In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

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  Lying, Garden, Secret

  Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.68, St. Martin's Press

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• The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

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  Attitude, Differences, Would Be

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.277, St. Martin's Press

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• To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

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  Writing, Character, Needs

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• Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

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  Jobs, Opposites, Answers

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.106, St. Martin's Press

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• El diálogo es un lenguaje ágil en el que cada palabra cuenta.

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  Writing, Language, Dialogue

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press

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• A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

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  Jobs, Skeletons, People

  Sol Stein (2005). “Other People”, p.168, iUniverse

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• Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.

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  Mistake, Writing, Beginners

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• A writer writes what other people only think.

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  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.87, St. Martin's Press

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• Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

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  Reading, Stories, Tvs

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• El mago experto busca engañar a la mente, más que al ojo.

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  Eye, Magic, Mind

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• A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

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  Writing, Few Words, Emotion

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press

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• Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

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  Writing, Views, Speech

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.110, St. Martin's Press

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• Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

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  Writing, Action, Tough

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• Veo manuscritos y libros que se echan a perder para el lector literario porque son un largo torrente de escritura de cabeza, un escritor que cuenta una historia sin preocuparse por la precisión o la frescura en el uso del lenguaje. Algunos de estos relatos se leen como si fueran hablados en lugar de escritos, llenos de imágenes manidas que le vienen a la cabeza al escritor porque le resultan muy familiares. La parte superior de la cabeza es apta para hacer crecer el pelo, pero no para generar prosa fina.

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  Book, Writing, Tired

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