#writing

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. ↗

— Breece D'J Pancake

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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. ↗

— Stephen King

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Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. ↗

— Horacio Quiroga

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For every laugh, there should be a tear. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. ↗

— Stephen King

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All stories are love stories. ↗

— Robert McLiam Wilson

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To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them. ↗

— Thomas More

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It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ↗

— William Golding

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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page. ↗

— Javier A. Robayo

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