Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

~ Jason E. Hodges

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Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

~ Jason E. Hodges

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Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

~ Rob Bignell

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There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

~ Rob Bignell

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Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

~ Roman Payne

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So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

~ Glen Hirshberg

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My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

~ Nenia Campbell

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He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossedaway from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life.

~ Jeffry R. Halverson

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Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little capacity for unyielding imagination, whereas the natural-born writer can do little but yield to the tug of imagination. Ordinary people may practice for years to 'perfect' the challenge of writing; but the one destined to create and destroy with the stroke of a pen, the strike of the key, their wells of imagination shall never run dry.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

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I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted by the effort. I clearly wasn't in shape. You don't just tie on a pair of running shoes and go out and run a marathon. You have to be in running shape, just like you have to be in writing shape.

~ Julie Tetel Andresen

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Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught of open violence? One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

~ Christy Hall

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I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

~ Christy Hall

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Because. Everything worth anything takes time.

~ Christy Hall

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But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

~ Isabel Huggan

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Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

~ Buffy Andrews

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The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

~ Mo Yan

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As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . .

~ Lee Gutkind

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...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror......there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites...

~ Robert A. Heinlein

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WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

~ Nico J. Genes

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Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

~ Christy Hall

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Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

~ Christy Hall

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You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

~ Christy Hall

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Write like a motherfucker.

~ Cheryl Strayed

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The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

~ Katherine Paterson

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Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

~ Owen Wister

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Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

~ Christy Hall

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Working on it.

~ Paul Aertker

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By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer’s vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

~ Avijeet Das

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As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

~ Avijeet Das

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It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

~ Andrew M Greeley

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At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

~ Avijeet Das

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Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

~ Ben Tolosa

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I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God is good to us, we write in such a way that the act of reading becomes a pleasure to those who buy our books.

~ M.v. Carey

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Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me like ivy.

~ M.v. Carey

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More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us. Of course we are the ones who have to do the paperwork.

~ M.v. Carey

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