If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

~ George Gordon Byron

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The personal eloquence of other people expressing aspects of nature and human condition inspire us, as do persons whom exhibit courage to gain strength when dealing with the hardships and struggles of a mortal life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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An attraction to self-discovery and self-expression can be uplifting and assist us combat epic boredom. The toll of writing truthfully as possible can cause the writer to spiral emotionally out of control. Writing’s tempest temperament can prove a fatal attraction and many notable writers succumbed to the dark knight’s powerful sword. Too many writers and a cast of dead poets found themselves dangerously adrift on the flowing river of black ink interlocked in a life and death struggle with the creative streams of impulsion colliding with the rocky pods of madness. All artists must fight off the impulse to surrender to the aftershock of madness. The mad vein of stabbing pain that we might think belongs exclusively to ourselves is in actuality the capstone of the blood sport known as communal anxiety.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.

~ Daisy Goodwin

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I'm not a writer, I just express in words!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot.

~ James Salter

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The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

~ Don Roff

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Writing heals the quandaries of life.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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

~ Kevin Cowdall

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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

~ Jt Sanz

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I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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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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The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

~ Oliver Markus

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

~ Stephen King

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I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

~ Johnny Rich

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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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Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

~ Johnny Rich

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The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

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Don’t know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

~ Carolyn V. Hamilton

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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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Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

~ Rachel Thompson

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Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

~ Virginia Alison

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When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

~ Rob Bignell

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..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

~ Rob Bignell

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When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

~ Rob Bignell

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

~ Rob Bignell

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I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

~ Tracie Molton

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My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

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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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Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

~ Rob Bignell

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Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

~ Rob Bignell

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By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

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