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  • #1
    Lawrence M. Schoen
    “Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.”
    Lawrence M. Schoen

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #5
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #6
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #7
    Jacques Barzun
    “Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.”
    Jacques Barzun

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    robert heinlein

  • #9
    Frederik Pohl
    “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
    Frederik Pohl

  • #10
    Joe Haldeman
    “Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
    Joe Haldeman

  • #11
    John Steinbeck
    “If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”
    John Steinbeck

  • #12
    J.R. Ward
    “Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward”
    J.R. Ward, The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

  • #13
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #14
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #15
    William Carlos Williams
    “I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
    William Carlos Williams

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #17
    Robert Mykle
    “Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”
    Robert Mykle

  • #18
    Robin McKinley
    “The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
    Robin McKinley

  • #19
    E.L. Doctorow
    “A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #20
    David Alejandro Fearnhead
    “The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.”
    David Alejandro Fearnhead

  • #21
    Michael Cunningham
    “One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
    Michael Cunningham

  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #23
    Alexei Maxim Russell
    “The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”
    Alexei Maxim Russell

  • #24
    Nikki Giovanni
    “If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
    Nikki Giovanni

  • #25
    Heywood Broun
    “Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”
    Heywood Broun, Anthony Comstock: Roundsman Of The Lord

  • #26
    Janet Burroway
    “Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.”
    Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

  • #27
    William Styron
    “I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”
    William Styron

  • #28
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #29
    Katrina Monroe
    “Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.”
    Katrina Monroe

  • #30
    C.J. Heck
    “A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
    CJ Heck



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