I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

~ Breece D'j Pancake

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From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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Writing heals the quandaries of life.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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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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All stories are the sin of their weaver.

~ Miyuki Miyabe

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When I write, my soul sings.

~ Melissa Marsh

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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

~ Joanne Harris

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Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

~ Will Advise

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I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

~ Julian Darius

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Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry.

~ Alexander Pope

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

~ Wole Soyinka

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Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

~ Stefanos Livos

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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore and also transcend your gender (and race and class and orientation and nationality and moment in history and age and ability) and experience being others.

~ Rebecca Solnit

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The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

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There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have authorized ourselves to be authors.

~ Elena Ferrante

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