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How do I get inspired? Life.

—Alex G. Zarate

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Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don’t want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

—Robert Black

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It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

—Brandt Legg

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Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

—Robert Black

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Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

—Steven Lake

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Writer does nothing,But think deeply.

—Shashank Rayal

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Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

—Robert Black

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The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

—Brandt Legg

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Jika penulis tidak mempertahankan prinsipnya, apa yang tinggal untuk ditulisnya?

—Anna Lee Jue

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I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

—Anne Lamott

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Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

—Buffy Andrews

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Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

—Brooke Bida

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I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

—Carla H. Krueger

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A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become...

—Christopher Bram

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Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

—Christopher Isherwood

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What makes me furious, not just because we’re in an interview, but I don’t like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

—Erykah Badu

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I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

—Christy Hall

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You know you’re officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.

—Christy Hall

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brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

—Colson Whitehead

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Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

—Jarod Kintz

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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring,...

—George Jean

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Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few...

—Italo Calvino

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J’ai un but, une t che, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d’écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible.”(“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession...

—George Sand

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Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

—Georges Bataille

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What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

—Gustave Flaubert

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(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” — margaret case harriman

—Margaret Harriman

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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

—Lemony Snicket

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The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

—Marty Rubin

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Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn’t be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any...

—John Crowley

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A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

—Munia Khan

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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you?...

—Marcel Proust

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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

—Kurt Vonnegut

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The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today’s literary world; there’s precious little economic incentive to write one…

—Lawrence Block

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You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the...

—Markus Zusak

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For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his...

—Nelson Algren

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Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

—Michael Graves

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When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

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It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.” And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.

—Suzanne Kelman

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This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

—Tawny Lara

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

—Zia Haider

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There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

—Umberto Eco

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When I write…I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

—Sanober Khan

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Writting turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn’t completely wreck...

—Philip Roth

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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

—Sara Sheridan

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You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

—William Saroyan

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You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to ‘write.’ You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

—Robert J.

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I do not love men: I love what devours them.

—André Gide

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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

—Adam Gopnik

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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 don’t do math.

—Buffy Andrews

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