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Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

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File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. ↗

— Antony Johnston

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As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. ↗

— Rita Webb

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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. ↗

— Carlos J. Cortes

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I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. ↗

— Leon Uris

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Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! ↗

— J.C. McClean

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