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D. J. MacHale Quotes
D. J. MacHale Quotes
D. J. MacHale
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 11
,
1955
Good
Love
Will
Write
Writing
You
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To write, you need to find what you love.
D. J. MacHale
Love
You
Find
Write
What You Love
Need
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
D. J. MacHale
Good
You
Will
Before
Mystery
Write
Know
Known
Always
End
Begin
Where
Decide
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
D. J. MacHale
You
Mind
Will
Whatever
Must
Something
Write
Always
Real
Going
Blueprint
Screenplay
Staged
Really
Therefore
Keep
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
D. J. MacHale
Best
People
Writing
Events
Try
Will
Advice
Single
Own
Way
Respond
Hopefully
Be Real
About
Give
My Own
Write
Take
Writers
Know
Piece
Readers
Always
Real
Familiar
Conflicts
Places
Aspiring
Things
Suggest
My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
D. J. MacHale
Life
My Life
Changing
Ongoing
Adventure
Ever
I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale
Journey
Character
Together
Writing
Believe
Would
Find
Thread
Writers
Had
Individually
Instead
Ideas
Stories
Decided
Story
Them
Create
Multiple
Series
Whose
Actually
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