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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. ↗

— Stephen King

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Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. ↗

— Julia Quinn

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Imagination is what you do with your inspiration. ↗

— Violet Haberdasher

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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure. ↗

— Warren Ellis

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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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