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

—Brandt Legg

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

—André Gide

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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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The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past...

—Ashwin Sanghi

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great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I...

—Charles Bukowski

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I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

—Ariel Schrag

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such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

—Christopher Bram

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It’s difficult to quantify precisely the effect of books on our lives – but generally speaking, it’s enormous.

—Carla H. Krueger

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How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers...

—Carmen Johnson

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The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

—Christos Tsiolkas

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When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete…you feel as if you could do anything.

—Christy Hall

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

—Isaac Asimov

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Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

—Ian McEwan

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You can save many lives but the most courageous act is to save your authentic-self.

—Evelyn Leilou

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I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts...

—Jami Attenberg

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Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

—Chloe Thurlow

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An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

—Gaston Leroux

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As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

—James Hilton

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We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

—Jacob Nordby

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When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying...

—M.E. Vaughan

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Writing well means never having to say, “I guess you had to be there.

—Jef Mallett

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The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

—Kellie Elmore

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The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

—Joy Williams

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Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

—Love The

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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine–why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly...

—May Sarton

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The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

—John F. Kennedy

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What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

—Julian Barnes

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Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn’t as much pressure to present...

—Margaret Atwood

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to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we...

—Robert Krulwich

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Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

—Rob Bignell

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I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others

—Stanley Victor

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Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

—Roman Payne

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Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

—Slash Coleman

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I don’t think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don’t...

—William Faulkner

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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

—William Hazlitt

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all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

—Sanober Khan

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Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman’s erotic force something that male storytelling can never...

—Peter Brooks

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I write to believe in goodness.

—Red Haircrow

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Nuestras dudas son traidoras, porque nos hacen perder aquello que pudimos ganar, por miedo a intentarlo

—William Shakespeare

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Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer.

—Whitney Otto

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You describe your Wonderful Night very well. That is, you describe the place & the people and the night and the feeling of it all, very well—but not the thing itself—the setting but not the...

—C.S. Lewis

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Sometimes writing is like playing with fire… like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast.

—A.D. Posey

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Three words for a writer: Make me care.

—Buffy Andrews

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