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An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious...

—Nan Merrick

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Sifting through long forgotten stories of my childhood and writing on a daily basis, I became obsessed with following the threads of my memories, one leading to another. I start pulling on a single, seemingly...

—Alice Bag

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Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

—C. Kennedy

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Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in...

—Christopher Hopper

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Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

—Christy Hall

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The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page,like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

—Cynthia Ogren

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So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

—Glen Hirshberg

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It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

—Ernest Hemingway

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Skulle det vara roligt, det där att skriva? Det visste han inte om han tyckte. Efter fem koppar te, två soppåsar med hopknycklade papper och en väldig massa kliande i håret med en nyvässad blyertspenna,...

—Linnea Gelland

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A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

—Mary Papas

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Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

—Ken Scott

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…ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the...

—Rob Bignell

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Working on it.

—Paul Aertker

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I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

—Stephen King

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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

—Red Haircrow

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Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

—Anne Lamott

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The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons.

—Carla H. Krueger

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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course,...

—Dorothy Parker

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Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to...

—Hilary Mantel

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This piece of earth I billet grows small. Bullets of time dart past, dropping shards of opportunity at my feet. And until the rift that surrounds my decaying body clamps shut—swallows me up like so...

—Chila Woychik

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Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

—Dianne Kozdrey

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Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of...

—Lori Goodwin

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You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits...

—Octavia E.

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Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul…you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn’t snap.

—Judy Croome

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I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I was overcome with fear. Yes, may God forgive me, but the letters of...

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into...

—Shaun Hick

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Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

—Paulo Coelho

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Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue–the clue–lies there. I’m always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and...

—Philip K.

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You don’t teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.

—Rowan Ricardo

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I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand...

—Betsy Byars

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(Live + Think) x Different = Write Different

—Bob N.

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A writer who’s afraid to express their opinions is not a writer – they’re just a person with a pen.

—Carla H. Krueger

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Life baffles me most days. Maybe that’s why I write. To try and make sense of it all.

—Christy Hall

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I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down...

—Darynda Jones

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Let’s have lunch.

—Chila Woychik

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As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; it’s just that as I...

—Haruki Murakami

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On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost...

—Jim C. Hines

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Do what you love…

—Lise Cartwright

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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

—Julia Cameron

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…writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth …

—John Geddes

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Steven wrote to me today, saying, ‘Don’t you feel like sticking your head out of the window and yelling, “I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!”‘ Yes, absolutely. Solidarity. Fear is always the same. Different worries...

—Russell T.

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When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.

—T.A. Uner

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I write to escape. I haven’t managed it yet, but I’m working on it

—William Meikle

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I am a perfectionist in spirit

—Bob D'Eith

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To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: ‘Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write....

—Bertrand Russell

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… The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper,...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

—Christy Hall

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The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

—Cynthia Ozick

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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

—Don Roff

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Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It was up in Cortina d’Ampezzo when I had come back to join Hadley...

—Ernest Hemingway

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