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That's the good thing about writing. You don't need any spec

That's the good thing about writing. You don't need any special degree or anything to do it. You just do it.

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I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

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You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

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...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - o

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

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I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of cr

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

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But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was dong in the reader's heart?

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Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition w

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

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I always worked until I had something done and I always stop

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Ernest Hemingway

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I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale i

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

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To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.

Bertrand Russell

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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was n

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

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Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don't have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

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