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“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.”

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Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.”

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Author:Bob Schieffer

“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

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Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more

“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

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Author:Tom Bissell

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

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Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”

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Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”

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Author:Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.”

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”

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Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.”

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Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

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Author:Nelson Algren

“The best style is the style you don't notice.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

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Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

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Author:William Wordsworth

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”

“Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”

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Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

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Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“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.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.”

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Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”

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Author:Elias Canetti

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”

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Author:Alfred Kazin

“Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.”

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Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

“The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”

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Book:Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

Source: Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”

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Author:Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.”

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Author:Jack Smith

“The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.”

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Book:Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Source: Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.”

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

“By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.”

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Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.”

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Author:Aberjhani

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