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Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. ↗

— Christina Westover

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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. ↗

— Don Roff

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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... ↗

— Walter Mosley

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Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure ↗

— Chris Stocking

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Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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