my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

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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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Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

~ Lenore Kandel

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It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

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

~ Rob Bignell

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All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

~ Lori Lesko

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Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

~ Ralph Keyes

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It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

~ Tom Mccarthy

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People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you’re just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.

~ Zack Love

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I would be happy to take credit for all of the wonderful experiences I describe in my novels, but my life isn’t quite that rich. Unfortunately we authors are sometimes forced to use other people’s lives, too.”“Sounds rather beastly,” the journalist laughed. “Or maybe writers are like vultures. Some people feel we journalists are.” He mimicked a bird of prey and grinned.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

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Even the best cook can’t make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren’t so terribly many ingredients in anyone’s life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come up with at most two good novels. Many who think very highly of themselves can’t manage more than a couple of anecdotes.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

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A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are going to live forever through your work, in your books, in the hearts of your readers, in your characters.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

~ Tom Mccarthy

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Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

~ Linda Durbin

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A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

~ Ryan Lilly

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Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

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#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

~ Mozaiah Thompson

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The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

~ R.d. Ronald

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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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But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the line, to get itself with the work that is taken seriously, one has to have had either an unusual knowledge of or a peculiar sympathy with the characters one handles. One can’t write about what one most admires always—you must, by some accident, have seen into your character very deeply, and it is this accident of intense realization of him that give your writing about him tone and distinction, that lifts it above the commonplace, in other words

~ Willa Cather

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Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

~ Martha Alderson

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Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

~ Anne Rice

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I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not show it; most of them, I thought, did not really live - contented themselves with appearing to live, and were on the verge of considering life merely as a vexatious hindrance to writing.

~ André Gide

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Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

~ Martha Alderson

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As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment and there is perfection, you know, as if I exist fully in that nanosecond of emotion.

~ Trinity Jones

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How do I get inspired? Life.

~ Alex G. Zarate

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Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

~ Lisa Bedrick

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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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Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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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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