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Life's adventures make great reading! ↗

— Denise Robbins

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We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Writers often feel as if they exist on the periphery of life. By being observers, we feel a bit detached from the actions of the moment. It's difficult to blend in, to become a part of things. ↗

— Barbara DeMarco Barrett

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To win don't use " IF " .use " WHEN ↗

— K.M.Fareed

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When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor-- Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers. ↗

— Joel Chandler Harris

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Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. ↗

— Ted Chiang

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A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 ↗

— Candace Bushnell

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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

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Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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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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