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#1

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

tags: fear, horror, storytelling

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#2

“Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: epithet, harry-dresden, humor

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#3

“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.”
― William S. Burroughs

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#4

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

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#5

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#6

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing

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#7

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

tags: literature, novels, writers, writing

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#8

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers

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#9

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
― Junot Diaz

tags: inspirational, writers, writers-on-writing, writing

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#10

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

tags: author, authors, books, heroine, love, stories, writers

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#11

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

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#12

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz

tags: creative-process, urge, writers, writing

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#13

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers

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#14

“You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
― Orson Scott Card

tags: art, writers, writing

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#15

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
― Margaret Chittenden

tags: brainstorm, chittenden, crazy, margaret, room, writers

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#16

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: chaos, construction, creative-process, destruction, writers, writing

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#17

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: on-writing, writers

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#18

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

tags: art, hurts, memory, misery, novels, persistence, remember, requirements, scars, stephen-king, stories, talent, writers

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#19

“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”
― William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

tags: unhappiness, writers

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#20

“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: society, writers, writing

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#21

“Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

tags: life, novels, realism, reality, writers, writing

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#22

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
― Epictetus

tags: writers, writing

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#23

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: writers

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#24

“Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So this is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

tags: shakespeare, writers, writing

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#25

“But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?”
― Peter S. Beagle

tags: writers, writing

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#26

“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.
2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.
3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
4. Pick one — fame or delight.
5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
9. You’re done when the crows sing.”
― Ron Dakron

tags: author, dakron, on-writing, ron-dakron, rules, writers, writing-process, writing-rules

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#27

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

tags: stories, writers

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#28

“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: writers, writing

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#29

“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”
― Erin Bow

tags: books, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, writers, writing, writing-advice, writing-process

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#30

“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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