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No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it. ↗

— R.K. Narayan

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Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

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I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. ↗

— Angeline Trevena

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People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

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Like some people in life, a lot of my characters have no future. ↗

— Jack Tate

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I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to. ↗

— Jack Tate

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Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

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...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ... ↗