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Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer. ↗

— Stephen King

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. ↗

— Tom Bissell

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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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