I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

~ Dean Wesley Smith

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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

~ Dean Wesley Smith

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English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.

~ Dean Wesley Smith

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