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Welcome to The Mind of the Quill! Thankyou so much for visiting. This is my collection of short stories and novels which I have written. Please feel free to leave editing/critiquing comments, any advice would be very much appreciated.

I hope you enjoy reading,

God bless you all,

Jessica.

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"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

- Truman Capote

”I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.” - Gustave Flaubert

" Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer." -Barbara Kingsolver

"Half my life is an act of revision.” - John Irving

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly." - C. J. Cherryh

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down." - Robert Frost

“Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You know how it is in the kid's book world; it's just bunny eat bunny.” – Anonymous

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.” - John Campbell

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.” - Peter de Vries

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” - Mark Twain

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” - Elmore Leonard

“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.” - Logan Pearsall Smith

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.” - Agatha Christie

“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.” —Larry L. King

““If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.” —Elmore Leonard

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”- Mickey Spillane

“As for the adjective, when in doubt leave it out.”- Mark Twain

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.” - Stephen Wright

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose." - Stephan King