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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.

— Shani Silver, I Am A Person, Not A Brand

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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.

— Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

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

— Gore Vidal, Conversations with Gore Vidal

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

— Lynee Tillman, Lynne Tillman on What It Actually Means to Be a Writer

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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.

— Mary Oliver, Upstream

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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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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.

— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell lost her job and almost overdosed on heroin. Then, she wrote a memoir.

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Because paper has more patience than people.

— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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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.

— Maxine Kumin, Writing Poems (5th Edition)

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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.

— Flannery O’Connor, A quote by Flannery O'Connor

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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.

— Chrissy Stockton, Media

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I hate writing, I love having written

— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

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Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.

— Paulo Coelho, The act of writing – the reader

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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.

— William Faulkner, Essays of the Masters

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Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.

— Lindsey Adler, Instagram Poet Rupi Kaur Seems Utterly Uninterested In Reading Books

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The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word.

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

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Here’s my advice for anybody out there who is creative and scared: Shout until they fucking hear you. And then shout even louder.

— Chris Gethard, The Chris Gethard Show

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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I write because it is the only way I can reach you.

— Sanober Khan, via GoodReads

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I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky.

— Stephen King, Night Shift

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I'm writing you a letter that I'll burn over the stove
just to watch the light between us flame and burn out again.

— Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

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Writing is a hard business, but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

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A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing…It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff, Old School

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'Why do you write?'

'So I can take my love for you and give it to the world'...Because you won't take it from me.

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Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.

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I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway (Odysseys in Artistry)

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.

— William Gibson, William Gibson riffs on writing and the future

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Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

— Nikki Giovanni, The Mary Sue at NYCC: Don’t Write What You Know, Fight It!

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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

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I am a poem.
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