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“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.”

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Author:Fabrizio De André

“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”

“Writing a bit closer to the edge today. Sometimes you just have to throw the truth all out there and annihilate all the bullshit. One of the many reasons why we write.”

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“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was curious to see if I could convey my emotional experiences adequately on paper.”

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Book:Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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“Writing is a path of knowing, a process of cognition, an act of being and becoming. The flesh gives voice to sing or rant, a verbal dance of cells, atoms, energy, intention, and attention.”

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Book:Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

Source: Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

“When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.”

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Author:Luke Bryan

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.”

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Author:Lloyd Jones

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.”

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Author:Andrea Barrett

“We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.”

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Author:Steven Saylor

“The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.”

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Author:Meg Rosoff