#writing

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect. ↗

— John Gardner

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Everything in life is a story just waiting to be written. ↗

— M.G. Marsh

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Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived. ↗

— Richard Peck

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Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. ↗

— A.E. Croft

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Often you cannot wait for inspiration—it needs to be sought out. ↗

— Dean F. Wilson

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You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one. ↗

— D.E.M. Emrys

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I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

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