Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

~ Nrn

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The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to build all by yourself, all alone, all through the night, while the world goes about its business without giving a damn. The only way of making this perilous passage is by looking at it as a pilgrimage.

~ Shatrujeet Nath

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The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

~ Val Kovalin

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The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.

~ Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

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Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?”She shrugged. “It’s entirely up to him.”“What do you mean?” He smiled quizzically at her.“Characters talk to you. Transform. Make choices,” she replied.“Choices,” he echoed.“Of who they become.

~ Nancy Holder

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It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

~ Andrew M Greeley

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Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

~ Ben Tolosa

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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

~ Flannery O'connor

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If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

~ Ann Patchett

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think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

~ Irvine Welsh

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Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description.

~ C.s. Lewis

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When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

~ Cheryl Strayed

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No writer ever puts into words which he or she thinks is unnecessary, learning how to discover that some are is one of the chief challenges in learning to write.

~ Anne E. Berthoff

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Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity thatconstantly threatens to overload short-term memory.

~ Linda Flower

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Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln’s Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer’s rule applies: Have the courage to write badly.

~ Joshua Wolf Shenk

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We will always come against people who don't like our books. People who think what we're doing is trivial or cliché or tries too hard. But there will always be people who love what we do and we have to take those good moments to heart.

~ Duncan B. Barlow

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Never underestimate the power of the written word, especially when you put them down in your own voice.

~ Cheryl L. Ilov

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Develop the skill of writing to avoid errors but if you do make them, don’t be demotivated

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

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It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.

~ Stewart Stafford

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Writing's in the nouns.

~ Lori Roy

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Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

~ Susan Marie

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I would write:The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.Or:The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream.The old man huddled in the dark doorway, his bony face lit by the burning yellow in the windows of distant skycrapers.My purpose was to capture a physical state or movement that carried a strong subjective impression, an accomplishment which seemed supremely worth struggling for. If I could fasten the mind of the reader upon words so firmly that he would forget words and be conscious only of his response, I felt that I would be in sight of knowing how to write narrative.

~ Richard Wright

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Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the not. If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

~ Gina Barreca

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Don't be afraid to get off the internet, the answers aren't all there. You may have to ask a cop about the kickback from a shotgun, or how sweaty they get in summer wearing body armor. Or what color blood is in the moonlight, or the vibrations through a serrated knife’s handle you feel in your fingers when you are hacking through somebody’s neck and hit cartilage.

~ Dan Alatorre

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The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you’ll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you’ll see stuff that’s long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good.

~ Dan Alatorre

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Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.

~ Natasha Lester

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Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

~ Eliza Green

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Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

~ Luke Taylor

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Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

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There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

~ Darynda Jones

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If you don’t make time for writing, writing won’t make time for you.

~ Sandra Elaine Scott

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Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Humor is so subjective, not everyone is going to get what you are peddling. Others will be offended when what you meant no offense whatsoever. Those are the stakes. You have to be able to stand up for yourself and what you’ve written. Comedy pushes limits, makes people uncomfortable, and is a natural reaction to the environment. Otherwise, as I said, it is forced. Let it flow and give your characters permission to cross a line or two, but only if you can take the heat afterward.

~ Darynda Jones

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I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.

~ Darynda Jones

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Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

~ Peter Selgin

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I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.

~ Diego Ramos

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