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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is. ↗

— Paul Auster

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if you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. ↗

— Stephen King

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Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ↗

— Besa Kosova

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