Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the artistry of that sentence? Sitting casually on the floor, a guard sat... That's freaking art right there! Someone nominate this thing for the Hugo Award already!

~ Jim C. Hines

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It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch—all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

~ Dani Shapiro

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Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Daydreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in a corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

~ Jo Linsdell

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The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

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I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

~ Day Parker

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I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.

~ Shannon Celebi

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Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us.A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an awards ceremony for him at the Folger Library several years ago, I said that he was like a great shark moving hidden in our midst, beneath the din and wreck of the moment, at apocalyptic ease in the very elements of our psyche and times that are most troublesome to us, that we most fear.Why do I write? Because I wanna be a great shark too. Another shark. A different shark, in a different part of the ocean. The ocean is vast.

~ Joy Williams

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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

~ Kingsley Amis

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Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

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This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives, the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.

~ Chrys Fey

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Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

~ Christy Hall

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I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

~ Christy Hall

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I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.

~ Christy Hall

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You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

~ Markus Zusak

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I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.

~ Christy Hall

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Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

~ Christy Hall

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I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

~ Christy Hall

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When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

~ Christy Hall

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Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

~ Christy Hall

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I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

~ Christy Hall

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A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

~ Christy Hall

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As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

~ Christy Hall

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Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

~ Christy Hall

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Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.

~ Christy Hall

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If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

~ Brian Rock

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Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

~ Buffy Andrews

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Three words for a writer: Make me care.

~ Buffy Andrews

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It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

~ Buffy Andrews

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Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

~ Buffy Andrews

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I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

~ Buffy Andrews

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I wear the writer pants in the family.

~ Buffy Andrews

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The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

~ Carroll Bryant

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Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

~ Eveli Acosta

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The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

~ Terry Lander

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Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy.

~ Sarra Cannon

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...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal

~ ;James M. Cain

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Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

~ Eveli Acosta

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People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

~ Sara Levine

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