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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.”

“The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.”

“The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.”

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Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

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

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.”

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

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

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Author:Coco Chanel

“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.”

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Author:James Gunn

“If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.”

“Exercise the writing muscle every day.”

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Author:Jane Yolen