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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. ↗

— Tom Bissell

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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is. ↗

— Paul Auster

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if you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. ↗

— Stephen King

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Writers write while dreamers procastinate. ↗

— Besa Kosova

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A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. ↗

— Harper Lee

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The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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