I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

~ Richard Wright

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The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.

~ Rob Bignell

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I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.

~ Buffy Andrews

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Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?

~ Buffy Andrews

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Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.

~ Buffy Andrews

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Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

~ Jules Renard 1890

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The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

~ Aberjhani

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