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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

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In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse. ↗

— A. Saleh

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Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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Goals are dreams with a deadline. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

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There's no such thing as a "wanna-be". Only someone who hasn't found the drive to take on a dream head on. Find the drive, be what you want to be. ↗

— Chris Almeida

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Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. ↗

— The Script

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