When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

~ Debasish Mridha

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We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

~ J.r. Rim

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Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself.

~ Gugu Mona

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Don't cry about it. Write about it.

~ Crystal Woods

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Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them! ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

~ Linda F. Radke

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Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

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I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

~ Ronald Sukenick

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I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

~ Ryan Lilly

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Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

~ C.j. Heath

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You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

~ Roger Kahn

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I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

~ Christopher Barzak

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My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.

~ Elizabeth Hernandez

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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

~ Dennis Covington

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These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

~ Kamand Kojouri

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When I write, my soul sings.

~ Melissa Marsh

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Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon. I hate showing up & the clerk fucking knows my name, perhaps because I’m a regular. Anyways got my shit, left…barely covering the tax. Took the long way home; to get away from that haunting typewriter. Sat down at some park bench, as I started to open my poison; A memory rushed into me. A empty bottle of Jack Daniel’s under the Christmas tree. I thought my dad would want another drink, so started to pour my bottle into the dirt & cried.

~ Brandon Villasenor

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When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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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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All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can.

~ Kat Unda

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Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone’s heart.

~ S. Sloan

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Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

~ Tammy Mentzer Brown

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Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

~ Michael J. Kannengieser

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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

~ Pat Conroy

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I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

~ Jennifer Egan

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If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

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But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

~ William Zinsser

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Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.

~ William Zinsser

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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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It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

~ William Zinsser

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Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough

~ William Zinsser

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Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: assistance (help), numerous (many), facilitate (ease), Individual (man or woman), remainder (rest), initial (first), implement (do), sufficient (enough), attempt (try), referred to as (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody.

~ William Zinsser

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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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Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar.

~ Anne Lamott

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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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