Five Great Quotations on What is a Writer

“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.” – William S. Burroughs

“Writing is…being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page.” – Mary Gaitskill

“Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!” – Hiromu Arakawa

“Writers build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.” – David Gerrold

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.” – Jennifer Salaiz

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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A collection of six 'Storytelling 101' guidebooks by Rob Bignell, featuring varying colors and titles, including topics like writing, outlining, and formatting stories.

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