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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. ↗

— Joss Stone

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dance #draw #else #live #mind

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#becoming #concerned #entire #far #get

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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