The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

~ Julia Cameron

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He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

~ Lauren Groff

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I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.

~ Kevin Focke

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In the wander land, we engage ourselves in writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away someday, perhaps to someone who needs an idea. Or your great-great-grandchildren might love knowing what a fascinating mind you had. Or your biographer might be very happy after you’re gone.

~ Barbara Sher

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Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.

~ Les Murray

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It tugged at his soul not to talk to other writers about his work. He loved the bank, keeping it secure and compliant with the laws and regulations. People assumed these things happened by magic. They did not. Hauer never talked about it outside the office. He didn't want to make the other writers uncomfortable. If he developed a reputation as someone who brought his work with him to writers conferences they would all turn away, to sip and swizzle their drinks without him.

~ Charlie Close

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Creativity is magic in the making.

~ A.d. Posey

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Creativity is divine.

~ A.d. Posey

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Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

~ Jane Yolen

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Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world.

~ Quail Bell Magazine

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It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: It’s a myth and a trap and a hamster wheel that will run you to death. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun... The most evil trick about perfectionism, though, is that it disguises itself as a virtue.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

~ Edgar Degas

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Be creative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Write the words on your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

~ H.w. Brands

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On the great canvas of timeWe all create our own masterpiece.Choreographing our steps across minutes and hoursDancing over the daysPainting pictures over months andWriting our stories on the years.Singing our songs that echo across eons.We are all a thread in the talent tapestry.A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage.

~ Michele Jennae

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Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the hundredth time. It's not the same thing. Most people think perspective is a good thing: you can figure out characters' arcs, you can apply a moral, you can tell it with understanding and context. But this perspective is a misrepresentation: it's a reconstruction with meaning, and as such bears little resemblance to the event.

~ Charlie Kaufman

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I write because there are things in me that cannot die.

~ Sanober Khan

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I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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Great souls, Great stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.

~ Johnny Rich

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If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.

~ Dawn Garcia

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Imagination is a divine creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

~ Jack Kerouac

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Dreams are fuel for creation.

~ Joseph Hunt

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There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

~ Sergio Troncoso

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Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

~ Sergio Troncoso

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Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

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There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent.

~ Jeanette Leblanc

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In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

~ Fennel Hudson

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I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

~ Fennel Hudson

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Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

~ Fennel Hudson

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