In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

~ Josh Malerman

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

~ Zia Haider Rahman

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Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.

~ Zia Haider Rahman

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I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.

~ Mark A. Cooper

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Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

~ Robert Black

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But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

~ Naomi Wood

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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 Stacks Bookstore

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Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

~ David Chuka

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A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

~ Christopher Bram

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Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

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We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

~ Teresa Mummert

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If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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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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People visit exposed and vulnerable, writers live there

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

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The most difficult thing about writing, is writing the first line.

~ Amit Kalantri

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Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

~ Siri Hustvedt

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What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

~ Benjamin Jowett

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Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

~ Michel Foucault

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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 that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.

~ Lori Goodwin

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A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.

~ Leslie Austin

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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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When authors write from personal experiences,straight from the heart,it touches the readers. Their work speaks out to all who read it,and most of the time,people can relate to what was written. I have always believed that books can change people's lives. Especially ones where the author is sincere,and writes deep,thoughtful,touching things from their hearts.-Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

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Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

~ Charles Bukowski

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I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.

~ George R.r. Martin

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The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.

~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

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Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

~ Eveli Acosta

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all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

~ Peter Davis

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What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.

~ Julie Wright

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To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

~ Eveli Acosta

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People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

~ Sara Levine

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I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

~ Walter Farley

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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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I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

~ Ian Mcewan

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It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

~ Seeley James

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