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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

“If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.”

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Author:J. B. Priestley

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”

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Author:Leo Rosten

“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”

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Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

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

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

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

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

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Author:Anais Nin

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”

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Author:L.P. Hartley

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.”

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Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

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Author:Sidney Sheldon

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”

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Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

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Book:Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

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Author:William Faulkner

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

“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.”

“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”

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Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“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.”

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

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“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

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

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”

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Author:Mickey Spillane

“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

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”

Source: Faulkner at West Point

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

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