Five Great Quotations about Good Writing

“For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen

“It’s not about the size of your book, it’s about the substance in it!” – Bernard Kelvin Clive

“The real dramatic force of a story depends on the strength of the emotion that has set it going.” – Eudora Welty

“The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.” – Aimee Bender

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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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