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Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. ↗

— David Nicholls

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I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. ↗

— Ron Koertge

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Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Listen to your inner self, it knows you best. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

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Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY! ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

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He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor. ↗

— Stephen King

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