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He'd mastered the first two rules of writing, as he understood them.
1) Steal some paper. 2) Steal a pencil. Unfortunately there was more to it than that. (HFS)
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'They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.' (WFM)
I wrote that in the days when I thought fantasy was all battles and kings. Now I'm inclined to think that the real concerns of fantasy ought to be about not having battles and doing without kings. (CP)
Thinking
This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. (N) ... I taught myself how to write by reading as many books as I could carry home from the library. (DCC)
What changed history were the smaller things. Often a few strokes of the pen would go the trick. (FC)
Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was struck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card. (WA)
… writing labels was always the hard part of magic, as far as she was concerned. (ER)
‘If you could read I’d send you a postcard, if I could write.’ (BOS)
‘… how hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be and, the and I and it, and so on, and there’s a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has already been done for you.’ (Sn)
'… I don't think it was for reading. It was for having written …' (CCODD)
every undelivered message is a piece of space-time that lacks another end, a little bundle of effort and emotion floating freely. (GP)
'You’re at home with the writin’ and readin’,’ grumbled Jackrum. ‘You can’t trust the people who do that stuff. They mess around with the world, and it turns out everything you know is wrong.' (MR)
'It's a bad case o’ the thinkin’ he’s caught, missus. When a man starts messin’ wi’the readin’ and the writin’ then he’ll come doon with a dose o’ the thinkin’soon enough. I’ll fetch some o’ the lads and we’ll hold his heid under water until he stops doin’ it, ‘tis the only cure. It can kill a man, the thinkin’.' (HFS)
'But I read where she was the most beautiful –’
‘Ah well,’ said the sergeant. ‘If you’re going to go around reading -’ ‘The thing is,’ said Rincewind quickly, ‘it’s what they call dramatic necessity. No-one’s going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?’ Eric was nearly in tears. ‘But it said her face launched a thousand ships -’ ‘That’s what you call metaphor,’said Rincewind. ‘Lying,’ the sergeant explained, kindly. (E) Making history, it turned out, was quite easy. It was what got written down. It was as simple as that. (J)
He was not, as an actor and a writer, averse to alcohol bought by other people ... (TG)
'Oh, well, if you prefer, I can recognize handwriting,’ said the imp proudly. ‘I’m quite advanced.’
Vimes pulled out his notebook and held it up. ‘Like this?’ he said. The imp squinted for a moment. ‘Yep,’ it said. ‘That’s handwriting, sure enough. Curly bits, spiky bits, all joined together. Yep. Handwriting. I’d recognize it anywhere.' (FC) HAS IT EVER STRUCK YOU THAT THE CONCEPT OF A WRITTEN NARRATIVE IS SOMEWHAT STRANGE? Said Death. (Th)
Ridcully assumed that anything people had time to write down couldn’t be important. (IT)
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