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“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“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.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
― Frank Ocean

“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.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Passion is the source of our finest moments… If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.”
― Joss Whedon

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”
― Orson Scott Card

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

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

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Writing is its own reward.”
― Henry Miller

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.”
― Erica Jong