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People are not meant to be alone, as the word itself is made of two syllables. ↗

— Kimberlee Colon

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Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules... ↗

— Umberto Eco

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You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. ↗

— Steven Brust

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Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over you’ll know what you’ve done. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

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Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. ↗

— Donald J. Bingle

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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or low you take it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Go beyond yourself -- write. ↗

— Pearle Louise Munn Bishop

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He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens. ↗

— Shadowlands

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Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. ↗

— Judith Rossner

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