#writers

You cannot write unless you write much. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. ↗

— Don Roff

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People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... ↗

— Lawrence Block

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Professional writers write to fit ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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Just write it! ↗

— Ted Bell

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I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

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Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! ↗

— Airambooksie

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Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning. ↗

— Félix J. Palma

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