An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

~ Johnny Rich

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Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

~ Sergio Troncoso

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Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

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poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

~ Sanober Khan

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Writer's block is just another name for fear.

~ Jacob Nordby

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We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

~ Jacob Nordby

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Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

~ Joy Fielding

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The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

~ Stephanie Lennox

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Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

~ Nadine C. Keels

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The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

~ Jamie L. Harding

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to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

~ Robert Krulwich

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People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

~ Marie-Louise Von Franz

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We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

~ Alan Brennert

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Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

~ Verlyn Klinkenborg

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...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

~ John Geddes

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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

~ Aberjhani

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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

~ Marcus Valerius Martialis

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You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

~ A.d. Posey

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Don’t let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future.

~ A.d. Posey

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You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don’t give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don’t lose them.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

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I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.

~ Marina Keegan

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Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.

~ Jessica Soffer

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Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

~ A.d. Posey

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To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it.

~ Gustave Flaubert

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I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.

~ Flannery O'connor

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Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

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Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

~ Stephen King

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Those who lead a literary life seem old when they're young and young when they're old, but they're never actually either. Like a good book, they are bound by neither category nor time.

~ J.c. Hallman

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A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

~ Munia Khan

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Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

~ Sunili Govinnage

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To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

~ Terry A. O'neal

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Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

~ Nikita Dudani

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I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

~ Zaeema J. Hussain

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Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

~ Jamie L. Harding

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