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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER...

—Mark Twain

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Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

—Jennifer Salaiz

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Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful...

—Richelle E.

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Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

—Zia Haider

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn’t true!

—Philip Larkin

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Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in...

—Ashly Lorenzana

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

—Carlos Ruiz

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Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

—Germany Kent

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Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a bunch of people trying to be one person.

—F. Scott

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The only thing in life that’s really interesting is the contest. We are all contestants–whether we admit it or not. If I read 20 pages of a book and they’re no good, I put it...

—Lee Marvin

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A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.

—Latif Mercado

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I read your diary. I KNOW.

—Mary Papas

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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

—Oprah Winfrey

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mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

—Nina Jean

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DRAMA: Be careful about being baited into the personal battles and confusion of others. If you want to help someone out emotionally, be certain he or she has made a commitment to the sacrifice before...

—Kerry E.

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In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

—Richard Flanagan

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Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

—Roopleen

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You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

—Shannon L. Alder

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And I love Jane Austen’s use of language too–the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom...

—Andrew Clements

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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

—Charles Bukowski

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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a...

—E.B. White

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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they’re complete, not leading...

—Dodie Smith

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I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his...

—Jack McClelland

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A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

—Jeff Phillips

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Writing is…. being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense,...

—Mary Gaitskill

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There’s writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

—Judith Briles

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You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons:...

—John Fowles

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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the...

—Michel Foucault

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It is the writer’s job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

—Seeley James

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We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

—Teresa Mummert

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He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks….

—Robert Galbraith

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If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

—Brian Rock

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Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes

—Angelica Hopes

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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

—Edward Albee

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By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

—Dermot Davis

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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on...

—J.D. Salinger

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i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

—Jonathan Culver

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A witer’s mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

—Leslie Austin

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I’m not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

—Mark A. Cooper

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There’s an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — “Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like p...

—Margaret Atwood

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To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

—Richelle E.

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That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

—Zia Haider

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Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

—Aoboshi Kimama

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I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

—E. Nesbit

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Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

—Germany Kent

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Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

—D.H. Lawrence

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In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading...

—John Green

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