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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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