#writers

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about. ↗

— Julie Wright

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Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

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Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . . ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

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Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. ↗

— Janet Wallach

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[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. ↗

— Red Haircrow

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If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers-on-writing #writing-craft #writing-how-to #science

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#experience

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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