Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

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How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

~ Sanober Khan

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Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

~ Roman Payne

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What would normal people think if they knew what went on in a writer's mind below the surface? They'd think him even more around the bend than they had previously supposed if they could see the witches' cauldron of images and memories boiling up from the subconscious, impressions whirling in from without, ideas and insights bursting up like bubbles and gone again before they can be seized. And the hopelessness of the business, the whole infuriating, exhausting, fascinating business of grabbing something out of the turmoil and imposing upon it some faint shadow or rumor of the order, pattern and rhythm of the world.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

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Writing gives me wings.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

~ Jenim Dibie

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Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

~ Rachel Thompson

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I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever been in my life. … It’s like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It’s like, ‘Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It’s super important for my law!

~ Joss Whedon

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Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

~ Marty Rubin

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Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Authors are sick people.

~ Sarah M. Eden

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Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an intense, statesmanlike seriousness about the business of being alive.

~ Tim Martin

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Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...

~ Virginia Alison

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my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

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When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

~ Rob Bignell

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His imagination seemed still to exhaust itself in running, before it tried to leap the ditch. While he mused, the fire burned in other brains. Other hands wrote the books he dreamed about. He freely used his good ideas in conversation, and in letters; and they were straightway wrought into the texture of other men's books, and so lost to him for ever.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

~ Rob Bignell

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When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

~ Rob Bignell

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Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

~ Rob Bignell

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Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

~ Ralph Keyes

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It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

~ Tom Mccarthy

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Even the best cook can’t make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren’t so terribly many ingredients in anyone’s life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come up with at most two good novels. Many who think very highly of themselves can’t manage more than a couple of anecdotes.

~ Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

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A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are going to live forever through your work, in your books, in the hearts of your readers, in your characters.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

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It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

~ Tom Mccarthy

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A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

~ Ryan Lilly

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Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

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Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

~ Martha Alderson

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Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

~ Anne Rice

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I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not show it; most of them, I thought, did not really live - contented themselves with appearing to live, and were on the verge of considering life merely as a vexatious hindrance to writing.

~ André Gide

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As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment and there is perfection, you know, as if I exist fully in that nanosecond of emotion.

~ Trinity Jones

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Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

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My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

~ Rob Bignell

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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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