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I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #writing #anger

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death. ↗

— Jean Rhys

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Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul. ↗

— Aneta Cruz

#reading #words-of-wisdom #writing #imagination

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

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Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#writing #art

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. ↗

— Jyrki Vainonen

#artists #creativity #surrealism #writers #writing

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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Writing and breathing are two things that feel most natural for me. ↗

— Susan Stovall

#nature

Good fiction creates its own reality. ↗