I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

~ 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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The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

~ Christy Hall

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

~ Benjamin Jowett

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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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That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

~ Christy Hall

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Nothing is louder than silence.

~ 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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Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

~ Robert Black

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His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented in Miss White a useful agent of celebrity, and he has come solely to harness her to the cause of his glory. It is himself that he courts by means of the salaams he offers to her; he only ever flirts with himself. He is the Narcissus of the inkpot...

~ Jean Lorrain

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Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

~ Michel Foucault

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The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

~ Mindy Kaling

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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Nostalgia! Miss Frost cried. You´re nostalgic! She repeated. Just how old are you, William? She asked.Seventeen, I told her.Seventeen! Miss Frost cried, as if she'd been stabbed. Well, William Abbott, if you're nostalgic at seventeen, maybe you are going to be a writer!

~ John Irving

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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

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Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

~ Gillian Flynn

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A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?''You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.''Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

~ Louise Fitzhugh

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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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Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel, in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer.

~ Lori Goodwin

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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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According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course.

~ John Irving

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Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

~ Robert Black

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

~ Christy Hall

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A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

~ Christy Hall

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Those who can't, and can't teach, translate.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

~ Mort W. Lumsden

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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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Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

~ J.a. Pak

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But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation— and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity— the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

~ Joseph Conrad

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Strong people write bad stories.

~ Manu Joseph

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A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

~ Dorothy B. Hughes

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