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#1

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Roopleen

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#2

“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
― Mary Gaitskill

tags: authors, inspiration, readers, vision, writing

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#3

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers

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#4

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: analogies, anger, angry-men, annoy, authors, bitter-people, characters, conflict, cruel-people, drama, enemies, examples, fake-christians, fiction-characters, fights, friends, irritation, jealous-women, life-events, made-an-example, memories, plots, stalkers, stories, villians, writers, writing

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#5

“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I doubt the novel or the short story would exist in its current form. I'm not going to say much more on the topic. Just remember: In dictatorships, only one person is really allowed to speak. And when I write a book or a story, I too am the only one speaking, no matter how I hide behind my characters.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: authors, novels, short-stories, writers, writing

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#6

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”
― Jennifer Salaiz

tags: authors, schizophrenics, voices, writers

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#7

“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
― Alain de Botton

tags: authors, books, self, writing

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#8

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: authors, on-writing, writers

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#9

“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

tags: authors, truth

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#10

“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications”
― Linda F. Radke

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#11

“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”
― Meagan Spooner

tags: authors, humor, inspirational, writer-s-block, writers, writing

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#12

“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: authors, fiction, writers, writing

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#13

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon”
― L.A. Dale, Heart of Glass

tags: authors, la-dale, romance

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#14

“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”
― Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

tags: authors, writing, writing-guide

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#15

“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling - receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone.”
― Kim Edwards, The Lake of Dreams

tags: authors, books, imagination

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#16

“Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: author, authors, mystery, social-life, whodunnit

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#17

“I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.”
― Julie Ann Dawson

tags: authors, writer-s-block, writing

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#18

“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.”
― Jessica Swan

tags: authors

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#19

“A writer gets to live yet another life every time he or she creates a new story.”
― Pawan Mishra, On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

tags: aspiring-writers, authors, books, creative-people, creative-process, creative-writing, creativity, fiction, fundamentals-of-creative-writing, fundamentals-of-writing, literature, on-writing, power-of-words, quotes-on-writing, reading, short-story, stories, story-writing, storytelling, tips-on-writing, write, writers, writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-fiction, writing-style

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#20

“Writers are made, they are not born.”
― Chris Mentillo

tags: author, writer, writer-inspiration, writers

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#21

“Be a good reader first if you wish to become a good writer.”
― Pawan Mishra, On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing

tags: art, arts-and-humanities, aspiring-writers, authors, books, creative-process, creative-writing, fiction, fundamentals-of-creative-writing, fundamentals-of-writing, literature, on-writing, power-of-words, quotes-on-writing, reading, short-story, stories, story-writing, storytelling, tips-on-writing, write, writers, writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-fiction, writing-style

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#22

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

tags: good, writing

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#23

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#24

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#25

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#26

“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.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#27

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#28

“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.”
― William Faulkner

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#29

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#30

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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