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Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write ↗

— George Sand

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For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. ↗

— Martin Cosgrove

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The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting. ↗

— Kristen Lamb

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Write because you love to write. ↗

— Cindi Lee

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I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed. ↗

— Ashley Sanders

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Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality or to introduce a new kind of love, a new kind of hate or pain or happiness or wonder or... anything we want. Through words, we can do, we can be anything we want. ↗

— Allie Burke

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