You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.

~ D.e.m. Emrys

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Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

~ Candace Bushnell

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Don’t you ever get scared?” I ask.“Of what?” She says.“Of not being good enough.”“You mean at writing?” L’il asks.I nod. “What if I’m the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I’m fooling myself-““Oh, Carrie.” She smiles. “Don’t you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

~ Candace Bushnell

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People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

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Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.

~ Lang Leav

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Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.

~ Ruta Sepetys

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To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.

~ Enock Maregesi

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We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

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I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

~ Jenny Moss

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I write for ghosts, the ghosts I can’t see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

~ Teresa Mummert

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Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.

~ Nikki Rosen

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Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.

~ Christy Hall

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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

~ Ted Solotaroff

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We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

~ Layne Staley

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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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You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

~ Christy Hall

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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

~ William Trevor

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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

~ Laurence Sterne

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I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

~ Herman Wouk

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Write like a motherfucker.

~ Cheryl Strayed

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Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations.

~ George Orwell

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The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

~ Katherine Paterson

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Write as though your life depended on it.

~ Jill Telford

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If your screen stays blank or your notepad empty, God cannot use your words.

~ K.m. Logan

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Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

~ B.a. Gabrielle

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Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?A: Explaining what that is.

~ Christy Hall

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Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

~ John Gardner

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You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

~ Mary Papas

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She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

~ Mary Papas

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The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.

~ H.e. Fairbanks

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Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I despise you - for I am honest. You are stronger than I. I have no armour for the struggle between us, I have only the Word, avenging weapon of the weak. Today I have availed myself of this weapon. This letter is nothing but an act of revenge - you see how honourable I am - and if any word of mine is sharp and bright and beautiful enough to strike home, to make you feel the presence of a power you do not know, to shake even a minute your robust equilibrium, I shall rejoice indeed. -

~ Thomas Mann

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Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

~ Roderick Vincent

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His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

~ H.w. Brands

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My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

~ Erik Larson

Erik Larson Curiosity Leisure Writing

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

~ Davis Miller

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All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

~ Thomas Swick

Thomas Swick Curiosity Reading Writing

Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

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For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

~ Mark Van Doren

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