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“The writer, like a murderer, needs a motive.”

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Book:The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don’t go along with Prince Charles’ maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.”

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Book:Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child

Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child

“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it is garbage. The only thing that can replace experience, though, is imagination; however it takes experience to grow an imagination.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“If a writer can seek help from a family member, friend, professional editor, translator, or ghost‑writer to refine, reshape, or even rewrite their work without losing authorship, then denying that same right when using AI is an unacceptable double standard!”

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Author:Mouloud Benzadi

“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...”

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Book:A Familiar Rain

Source: A Familiar Rain

“Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Writing is exposing yourself to strangers”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“. If you want to write, just write anything that comes into your mind. You will be surprised at how you can force inspiration to stand on your side.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“One day I will write a book. An epitaph”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Writing is magic happening on paper”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Every book has its ancestors”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Writing is not a mere occupation, but a passionate journey that transcends boundaries of time. It demands countless hours of dedication, pouring your soul onto paper, immersing yourself in a world of imagination. When the clock strikes nine to five, true writers ascend beyond the ordinary, igniting their creative flame that burns through the night. Embrace the unyielding spirit that fuels your words and remember, great stories are born from the relentless hours we invest, illuminating the world with our art.”

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Author:Yvonne Padmos

“Keep writing. It's all terrible in the beginning.”

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Author:A.K. Kuykendall

“Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your characters you're not doing it right.”

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Author:Ellie Elisabeth

“The hardest part of publishing a novel is attracting a reader, and especially one who would give a damn.”

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Author:Veronica Purcell

“If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.”

“Dreaming is easy, hammering out concrete details is hard.”

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Book:The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century

Source: The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.”

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Book:Women Who Run With the Wolves

Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves

“If I were to rank my aesthetic concerns, ambiguity would come before veracity.”

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Book:A History of My Brief Body

Source: A History of My Brief Body

“Writing is a form of rebellion against reality. Rebel!”

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Author:Don Roff

“Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.”

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Author:Carla H. Krueger

“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”

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Book:Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

“We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.”

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Author:Patrick McHenry

“Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”

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Author:Michael Cunningham

“I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits. When I set my keys in the place I, with practice, always set my keys... I do not lose them. In many instances an ordered external structure can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered, creative and unbounded inner structure.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.”

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Author:Joy Williams

“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.”

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Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.”

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Book:Young Miles

Source: Young Miles

“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.”

“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.”

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Author:Ryan Lewis

“[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.”

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Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.”

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Author:Brian Selznick

“The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.”

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Book:Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

Source: Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

“In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.”

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Author:Michael Arndt