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Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. ↗

— Stephen King

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

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...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ... ↗

— John Geddes

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Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

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