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God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

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I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature. ↗

— Nick Hornby

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Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been ↗

— Criss Jami

#cliche #discovery #great-men #greatness #journey

But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language. ↗

— Pierre Boulle

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About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince. ↗

— Christina Westover

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My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same. ↗

— Victoria Klein

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I write to reach eternity ↗

— James Jones

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. ↗

— Federico Chini

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Never ever forget that you enlisted in the ranks – you weren’t press ganged or drafted. Nobody owes you anything – least of all respect for your work – until you’ve earned it with what you put on the page. ↗

— T.F. Rigelhof

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