Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.

~ Jennifer Irwin

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Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

~ M. Kirin

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All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

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...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

~ John Geddes

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A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

~ Henry Green

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A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human actions or behavior. It's the writer's fault if we don't believe in his characters as human beings.

~ Sōseki Natsume

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To those that don't believe I'm worth more than what they think of other authors, to hell with them. Call me arrogant and call the police of politeness on me if you wish, because I won't stop until anyone that thinks that is erased from history. I will not only become immortal, but annihilate the memory of the ignorant from the face of the earth. My work will persist in the battles against the stupid and for thousands of years after I'm gone.

~ Robin Sacredfire

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Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

~ Alessandra Torre

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Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.

~ Robin Sacredfire

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Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

~ William Zinsser

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I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

~ William Zinsser

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The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

~ William Zinsser

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The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best.

~ William Zinsser

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Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don’t have to go at it alone.

~ Tethered By Letters

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If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Reflective writing produces distinct rewards. A writer does not claim to live exclusively in the moment. A pensive writer retreats into oneself in noble attempt to meld memory, thought, faith, doubt, and other strong emotions into thought capsules while exploring the inscrutable web of creation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Stephen King and Clive Barker can make amazing works, such people's book should be on your list.

~ Deyth Banger

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Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

~ William Zinsser

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Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste. Sundays I have breakfast late and read the papers with Hope. Then we go for a walk in the hills, and I'm haunted by the loss of all that good time. I wake up Sunday mornings and I'm nearly crazy at the prospect of all those unusable hours. I'm restless, I'm bad-tempered, but she's a human being too, you see, so I go. To avoid trouble she makes me leave my watch at home. The result is that I look at my wrist instead. We're walking, she's talking, then I look at my wrist - and that generally does it, if my foul mood hasn't already. She throws in the sponge and we come home. And at home what is there to distinguish Sunday from Thursday? I sit back down at my little Olivetti and start looking at sentences and turning them around. And I ask myself, Why is there no way but this for me to fill my hours?

~ Philip Roth

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...being rather unique is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

~ William Zinsser

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Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty, and the sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and frisky kittens and hard-bitten detectives and sleepy lagoons. This is adjective-by-habit - a habit you should get rid of. Not every oak has to be gnarled. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and a burden for the reader.

~ William Zinsser

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Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty, and the sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and frisky kittens and hard-bitten detectives and sleepy lagoons. This is adjective-by-habit - a habit you should get rid of. Not every oak has to be gnarled. The adjective exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and a burden for the reader.

~ William Zinsser

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I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

~ A.d. Posey

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There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

~ Kevin Cowdall

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If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

~ Johnny Rich

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If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

~ Olive Schreiner

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Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

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Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like trudging through a forest of thorny vines in hopes that you'll find freedom on the other side.

~ Allison J. Kennedy

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Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

~ Roman Payne

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Authors are sick people.

~ Sarah M. Eden

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Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

~ Rob Bignell

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Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

~ Rob Bignell

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Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

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Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

~ Rob Bignell

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