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If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better. ↗

— Lindsay Buckingham

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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ↗

— Stephen King

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This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another. ↗

— Jeff Goins

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Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well. ↗

— Margaret Jean Langstaff

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It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done. ↗

— Elinor Fuchs

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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas. ↗

— Linus Pauling

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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. ↗

— Thomas Harris

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I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough! ↗

— Brooklyn Hudson

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