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P.S. How to Write a Bestselling Novel: 4 Tips from Octavia Butler's Notes
"Redefine the problem. Imagine alternatives."
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Re-Noted: Octavia Butler's "Essentials of Success"
"So be it! See to it!"
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P.S. Toni Morrison's Beloved Drafts
"The point is so that it doesn’t look like it’s sweating like that effort, you see? It must appear effortless!"
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Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
"...I’ve written on scraps of paper, in hotels on hotel stationery, in automobiles. If it arrives, you know. If you know it really has come, then you…
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P.S. Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Diary
"…those that love cannot separate.”
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Mary Shelley's Notes for Frankenstein
"What terrified me will terrify others."
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P.S. Lewis Carroll's Alice Notes
"On which occasion I told them the fairy-tale of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground...”
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Lewis Carroll's Playful Notes
"We opened our Editor’s box this morning...and found it—our pen shudders and our ink blushes as we write—empty!"
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P.S. James Baldwin's Debate Notes
"The American Dream [^at the expense of] And the American Negro"
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Re-Noted: James Baldwin's Doodles
"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal."
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Re-Noted: Mark Twain's Innovative Notes
"It is a troublesome thing for a lazy man to take notes..."
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Re-Noted: Virginia Woolf's Handmade Notebooks
"That’s the real point of my little brown book…that it makes me read —with a pen—following the scent."
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