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There was an intimacy in writing that was somehow absent from personal interactions.

— Sarah Lotz, Day Four: A Novel

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I point to the volcanic rock that forms the base of the forest floor, and say that if the trees can grow on such a hard, unforgiving surface, then a new life can be built on the foundation of any hardship.

— Sarah Lotz, The Three: A Novel

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What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

— Sarah Lotz, Day Four: A Novel

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In order to write a story, you have to trust yourself, you have to trust the story, and you have to trust the reader.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave In The Mind

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I will not allow someone to tell me I can’t be a writer because I don’t have enough followers on Instagram.

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We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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Write something, even if it’s a suicide note.

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There is no secret password to being a writer. There is no secret code. You just do it.

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Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

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Why do I write. Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness.

— Elie Wiesel, From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

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In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

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I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.

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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow, The New York Times

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I write because you exist.

— Michael Faudet, via twitter.com

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I knew I was going to be annoying. But I was thinking of the narrators I like most in this world, like Cher from ‘Clueless.’ Once I let go of what I thought a book should be, that’s when I found this voice that was grounded in pop music. I love pop music. I love Britney Spears albums.

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Because paper has more patience than people.

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You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.

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To write is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

— Marguerite Duras, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

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I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.

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Even if it isn’t the piece of work that finds an audience, it will teach you things you could have learned no other way.

— J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Wishes Someone Told Her This While Writing Harry Potter

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse, My Belief: Essays on Life and Art

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I wake up every day and spend all day doing the one thing I love: creating.

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