Five Great Quotations about the Power of Writing

“A word is dead/When it is said,/Some say./I say it just begins/to live that day.” – Emily Dickinson

“We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.” – Richard Rhodes

“What I don’t write is as important as what I write.” – Jamaica Kincaid

“The true artist…gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful.” – John Gardner

“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.” – W.H. Auden

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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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