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If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. ↗

— Don Roff

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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. ↗

— Philip Sidney

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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. ↗

— James Jones

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With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. ↗

— James Rollins

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A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there. ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

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And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

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Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. ↗

— Ralph Keyes

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