When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

~ Joanna Penn

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Being a writer is not just about typing. It’s also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.

~ Joanna Penn

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When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.

~ Joanna Penn

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You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the THERE itself. There, that is writing's location and aim. But how to get there?

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

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Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

~ Dan Alatorre

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Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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Why the tag of ‘aspiring’ writer be the wishful cliché? It’s like a bumper sticker. Say it! I am a Writer. Period. We may all have a target and gradation toward successes, a personal illusion/perception. The quality or perseverance in one’s craft is your act. Flaws? Sure. Yet, you are a Writer, not a wannabe. Let go of the tags. Just write!

~ Jt Sanz

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As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming ideas and laboring over the production of sentences, paragraphs, scenes, dialogue, punctuation, and all the elements that go into writing a novel, a play, a screenplay, or a poem. When we're not writing, we're thinking, plotting, imagining, or editing, which can be far more tedious than cranking out first drafts.--Fire Up Your Writing Brain

~ Susan Reynolds

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The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

~ Mylo Carbia

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Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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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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My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

~ August Wilson

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On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. — Ignore critics. Critics are a dime a dozen. Anybody can be a critic. Writers are priceless. — Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn’t help you. Do it your own way. — Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write. — The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won’t write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any. Good luck.

~ Anne Rice

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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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A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

~ Robert Benson

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

~ Rob Bignell

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Write to evolve and you'll evolve to write.

~ Katina Ferguson

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Ignore people who say you can't do it, even if this person is yourself.

~ Martha Reed

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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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I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict with itself-will do the opposite of expose you. It will connect you. With others. With the world around you. With yourself.

~ Dani Shapiro

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Live first, write second.

~ Miranda Paul

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A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

~ Stephanie Lennox

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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

~ Philip Pullman

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My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends. He stared at the paintings for a long time and then shook his head in discouragement. In my mind, they were a whole lot better.Isn't that the truth? Every morning, I go to my desk and reread yesterday's pages, only to be discouraged that the prose isn't as good as it seemed during the excitement of composition. In my mind, it was a whole lot better.Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page closer to what you have in your mind.

~ David Morrell

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Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to say. Then say it in the most direct and vigorous way you can. Eat meat. Drink blook. Give up your social life and don't think you can have friends. Rise in the quiet hours of the night and prick your fingertips and use the blood for ink, that will cure you of persiflage!

~ Hilary Mantel

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Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.

~ Caron Kamps Widden

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Writing is the act of discovery.

~ Natalie Goldberg

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

~ Robert Hughes

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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.

~ Graham Swift

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I've tried to explain to people that I don't 'love' writing any more than I 'love' breathing. It's something I do and it's something I need. If I thought about it as a love/hate thing, I probably would have quit long ago. And then died.

~ Allison M. Dickson

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Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.

~ Lewis Carroll

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Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

~ Woody Allen

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Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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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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Write as though your life depended on it.

~ Jill Telford

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