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If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. ↗

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ↗

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

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' ↗

— Chester Bennington

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