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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

By Elmore Leonard

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Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven’t friends. Go find some.

By Ray Bradbury

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A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.

By Baltasar Gracián

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Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

By Mark Twain

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

By Vladimir Nabokov

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

By Madeleine L'Engle

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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

By Ray Bradbury

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

By Willa Cather

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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

By Ray Bradbury

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

By Stephen King

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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

By Stephen King

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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

By Aristotle

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Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

By Stephen King

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

By Ray Bradbury

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

By Maya Angelou

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

By Graham Greene

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In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

By Stephen King

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Make up a story… For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.

By Toni Morrison

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

By Stephen King

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.” [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

By John Green

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Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

By Stephen King

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

By Stephen King

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