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“Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.”

Ifs Writing Mean Ends Matter Turns Team No Matter What Relate Isolation Solitary Storyteller Superhero

Author:Joss Whedon

“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.”

Thinking Needs Writing Matter Artist Talent Humility Degrees No Matter What Painful Certainty Combination Uncertainty Arrogance Stubborn Validity Paradoxical Streaks Reassurance

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”

Inspirational Writing Doe Matter Kids Water Flow No Matter What Storytelling Great Writing Inspiration To Write Inspiring Writing

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.”

“Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.”

Writing Wells Matter No Matter What Breathing

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.”

Way Feels Writing Firsts Two Matter Feelings Four No Matter What Math Mood Plus

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

Writing Matter Night Happened No Matter What Get Up Bites Nails

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.”

Thinking Writing Believe Matter Stories Song Love Is No Matter What Love Story Fearless Happily Ever After Ever After Believe In Love Living Happily Ever After

Author:Taylor Swift

“Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.”

Writing Sometimes Matter Taste No Matter What Cooking Cake Better Than You

Book:Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders

Source: Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders

“So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.”

Writing Matter Hard Stories Dream Past Taken No Matter What Poison Who We Are

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.”

Men Writing Years Littles Said Matter Age Young Left Possibility No Matter What Suicide Clarity Reasonable They Said

Book:Women

Source: Women

“When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.”

Ifs Knows Writing Trying Book Matter Enough Helping Use Fine Terrible No Matter What Finished Sickness Odds Good Friend Soon Enough Enlisted

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.”

Writing Matter Feelings Hate Worry Honesty No Matter What Hate You

Author:Isabel Allende

“If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.”

Ifs Love Writing Persons Matter Laughing Relationship Love You No Matter What

Author:Chelsea Peretti

“The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.”

Ifs Writing Matter Lying Fun Lovers Training Breaths No Matter What Roommate Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:Grace Paley

“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”

Ifs Want Giving Writing I Can Matter Helping Lost Behinds Morning Five One Thing Tears Pages No Matter What Following Permission Leaving Me Days Off

Author:Lawrence Block

“I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!”

People Writing Matter Bigs Doors Fans No Matter What Core Mail Doing Me

Author:Julie Bowen

“If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.”

Ifs Writing May Matter Play Stories Imagination Creative No Matter What Instruments Tunes Orchestra Creative Writing

Book:Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.”

Thinking Writing May Matter Novel Honest No Matter What Oneself Being Honest Daily Life Whirlwind

Author:Iris Chang

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