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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect. ↗

— John Gardner

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Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. ↗

— Richard Peck

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Often you cannot wait for inspiration—it needs to be sought out. ↗

— Dean F. Wilson

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The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech] ↗

— Lois Lowry

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I'm like a junkie for writing. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

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Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last ↗

— William Blake

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Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. ↗

— Federico Chini

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Never ever forget that you enlisted in the ranks – you weren’t press ganged or drafted. Nobody owes you anything – least of all respect for your work – until you’ve earned it with what you put on the page. ↗

— T.F. Rigelhof

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