Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight V. Swain

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Dwight Vreeland Swain, born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American author, screenwriter and teacher. Swain was a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame.

American - Writer | November 17, 1915 - February 24, 1992

Source: Wikipedia

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

Dwight V. Swain

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

Dwight V. Swain

Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight V. Swain

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