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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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Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! ↗

— J.C. McClean

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And so many things get lost. Not just a set of keys or a photograph of your father with his first truck, but the door those keys once opened, the childhood house you long ago walked into, the father who used to carry you on his shoulders high above the crowds at the summer fair, his body now ashes and shards of bone. You hold these things in place on a page, you walk through that door, touch his face and smell the cigarette smoke on his breath and in his shirt, you make things breathe again in words. You feel the lightness of a ghostly touch across your skin. In that small house on the corner, the porch light suddenly comes on. ↗

— Lorna Crozier

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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. ↗

— Warren Adler

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I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns. ↗

— Mavis Cheek

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Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words. ↗

— Lisa Fantino

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Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart ↗

— Lisa Fantino

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It’s a choice, writing is. One that belongs to you and me. We get to choose it (or not) every single day. So whether or not the world hears your message — whether you leave the impact you were born to make — is entirely up to you. ↗

— Jeff Goins

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To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed. ↗

— Michele Garber

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