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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again. ↗

— Preston Sturges

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I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt. ↗

— Richard Bausch

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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. ↗

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... ↗

— Erica Jong

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There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. ↗

— Toba Beta

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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. ↗

— Carlos J. Cortes

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I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. ↗

— Leon Uris

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