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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. - Never use a long word where a short one will do. - If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. - Never use the passive where you can use the active. - Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. - Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. ↗

— George Orwell

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Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. ↗

— Brad Paisley

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. ↗