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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Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

~ Rob Bignell

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Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

~ Rob Bignell

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Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

~ Rob Bignell

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By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

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...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

~ Rob Bignell

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If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

~ Dani Shapiro

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I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

~ Christy Hall

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Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

~ Shannon Celebi

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I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

~ Christy Hall

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Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.

~ Christy Hall

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

~ Christy Hall

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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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...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

~ John Geddes

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...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

~ John Geddes

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...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

~ John Geddes

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Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

~ Philip Athans

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Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, “Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what you’re prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.

~ James Carlos Blake

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...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

~ John Geddes

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...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

~ John Geddes

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Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

~ David Eddings

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The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

~ Erica Lorraine Scheidt

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You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

~ Niall Williams

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The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won’t get mixed up.

~ Betty Smith

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The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.

~ Breyten Breytenbach

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Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

~ Mercedes M. Yardley

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I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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One day I will write a book. An epitaph

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Every book has its ancestors

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that – but you are the only you.

~ Neil Gaiman

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Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

~ John Geddes

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Poems arrive. They hide in feelings and images, in weeds and delivery vans, daring us to notice and give them form with our words. They take us to an invisible world where light and dark, inside and outside meet.

~ Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

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When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

~ Don Roff

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What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant product will never correlate exactly to the truth, will never arrive with quite the melodious voice you hear in the acoustic cavity of your mind.

~ Brenda Miller

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