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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#story #writer #writing #change

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#i #known #other #songs #than

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. ↗

— Barbara Abercrombie

#writing-life #inspirational

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried! ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspirational #writers-quotes #inspirational

Words both written and read are my passion. ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspiration #motto #writer #inspirational

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. ↗

— Peter James West

#inspirational #writing #writing-life #inspirational

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

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