I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.

~ Richard B. Knight

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Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits delivers on time. The aspiring author who is prone to perfectionism will likely never fin...

~ Gudjon Bergmann

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If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; however it takes experience to grow an imagination.

~ Roman Payne

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I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day is equal to, or greater than, the number of milligrams of mind-altering chemicals you ingest in that day. (Note: this rule does not apply to poets who write in the short-form. You, my boys and girls, are free as birds!)

~ Roman Payne

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Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

~ Heena Rathore P.

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A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of the words. The words themselves have to be open to new ideas and suggestions, and the writer himself must have the audacity to attempt new things and to risk failure

~ Karl Wiggins

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Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable idea as the writer occasionally balances a routine piece with an investment in the eccentric and untried. Over time, the reward is usually worth the risk

~ Karl Wiggins

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He stares now at the three words he has written.They are ridiculous. Writing is ridiculous. A sentence, any sentence, is absurd. Just the idea of it; jam one word up against another, shoulder-to-shoulder, jaw-to-jaw; hem them in with punctuation so they can't move an inch. And then hand that over to someone else to peer at, and expect something to be communicated, something understood. It's not just pointless. It is ethically suspect.

~ Jo Baker

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You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

~ Samuel Colbran

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I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

~ Cynthis Ozick

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Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.

~ Catherine Carrigan

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In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

~ R.m. Donaldson

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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, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond.

~ Cheryl L. Ilov

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For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

~ Karl Ove Knausgård

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I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.

~ Troye Sivan

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Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

~ R.m. Donaldson

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Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

~ Michael Stutz

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A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the unknown and articulate raw truths.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing facilitates thinking; the reagent substances we produce through writing augment our expanding system of ideas. Writing boldly triggers a chain reaction in our philosophical structure and thus writing can operate to transform who we are.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ Joanna Penn

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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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The Four Stages of Writer’s BlockW.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can’t.W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can’t. W.B. Stage I: I don’t want to write but I have to.W.B. Stage I: I don’t have time for writing … and, honestly, I don’t feel like writing.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

~ Stewart Stafford

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Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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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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Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

~ Chloe Thurlow

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Process is nothing, erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over, I hope birds ate the crumbs, I hope you will toss it all and not look back.

~ Annie Dillard

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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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Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft

~ Maxine Hong Kingston

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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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When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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