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Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. ↗

— David Morrell

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That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows. ↗

— Kelly Barnhill

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Poetry is a connection to a change within you. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate. It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum. And so with the editorial machine. One slot brought checks and the other brought rejection slips. So far he had found only the latter slot. ↗

— Jack London

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All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer. ↗

— Stephanie Lennox

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First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express. ↗

— RaeBeth McGee-Buda

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Shut up and write. ↗

— K.A. Laity

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t." — Lucille Ball ↗

— Lucille Ball

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I write because I'm free, because I can, because I will. I write because I must, because I'm breathing, because I'd go crazy otherwise, because it's who I am. I write to make a statement, to share my thoughts, to discover myself, to express my ideas. But most of all, I write for future generations. I write for love. I write to inspire. I write to encourage. I write for me. ↗

— Nadège Richards

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