I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a writer

~ Charisse Spiers

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Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

~ David Scheier

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I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does not prove your mettle as a writer or as an artiste!If my work can affect even one person and make him/her think then I am satisfied as a writer.

~ Avijeet Das

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I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.

~ Avijeet Das

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Writing is a way of life.

~ Kayla Lowe

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I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

~ Jack Jordan

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The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

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A writer’s tools are desperation, humiliation, loneliness, love, affection, heartache, happiness, glee, defeat, victory, setbacks, and a desire for personal redemption. People with the experience to know of such things relate that in order to write one must suffer an alleyway of anguish, and experience an array of physical and emotional pain. More than anything else, emotional growth, and writing are each reflective of the immeasurable gain accomplished through studious reflection.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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We weave together the many skeins of our words,Into poems and stories and books,And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

~ Bree Verity

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As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

~ Vincent Louis Carrella

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

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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When writing feels like jumping a cliff, grab the nearest pen!

~ Susan J. Mcintire

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Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath the deep waters.

~ Nikita Dudani

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Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Look back, but never look down.

~ Fennel Hudson

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The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.

~ Fennel Hudson

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If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

~ Fennel Hudson

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We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

~ Nicohle Christopherson

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When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.

~ Fennel Hudson

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I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

~ Fennel Hudson

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I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

~ Fennel Hudson

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A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.

~ Rob Bignell

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There is always, always, always something to write about.

~ Rob Bignell

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Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

~ Rob Bignell

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Every book I've read appears in my writing.

~ Rob Bignell

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...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

~ Rob Bignell

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On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

~ Jim C. Hines

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...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowding passive voice sentences.

~ Rob Bignell

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A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, because you can feel the stories living inside you, nudging you, prodding you, itching to get out and the only thing worse than writing it and failing is not writing it. As the late Maya Angelou once said, There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.Even if your work doesn't resonate with others, it is still worth writing. And that in itself, is what's important.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

~ Sanhita Baruah

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