The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

~ Alberto Manguel

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A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

~ Margaret Atwood

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The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

~ D.h. Lawrence

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Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

~ David Scheier

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Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

~ David Scheier

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Without the author there is nothing.

~ Michael E. Bierman

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If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!

~ Robin Sacredfire

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It's raining, raining words!

~ Wyketha K. Parkman

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Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

~ Daniel Marques

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He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

~ Lindsay Mckenna

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He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

~ Lindsay Mckenna

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We weave together the many skeins of our words,Into poems and stories and books,And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

~ Bree Verity

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The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

~ Toba Beta

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Just Because I Write About Horror, And The Supernatural, Etc...Doesn't Mean I Am A Monster Or A Bad Person.

~ Chris Mentillo

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And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.

~ Anne Lamott

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There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

~ Anne Lamott

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Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.

~ Alessandra Torre

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If you want to be a writer, then write.

~ I. Marlene King

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There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

~ Anne Lamott

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Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

~ Anne Lamott

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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

~ Anne Lamott

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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

~ Annie Dillard

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When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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why do people pour water on concrete expecting something to grow from it AP

~ Alexis Pettway

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The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

~ Annie Dillard

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You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

~ Annie Dillard

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Words exist in the smile on your face, the life in your eyes, the passion in your soul, and those beautiful and open enough to recognize it. THAT is a writers haven …

~ Dawn Garcia

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It’s knowing what really matters, what it is you’re chasing – or avoiding – and what makes you feel alive that propels you into a place where your beautiful soul can shine.

~ Dawn Garcia

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Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

~ Andrè Michael Pietroschek

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Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Let your light shine from the inside out.

~ Juliet M Sampson

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I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

~ S.a. Tawks

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Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

~ Fennel Hudson

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We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

~ Nicohle Christopherson

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I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

~ Fennel Hudson

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I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

~ Fennel Hudson

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The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

~ Nikki Rowe

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