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“I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.”
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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )
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“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
John Jakes quotes
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“Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.”
William Styron quotes (American Writer and Novelist, He is noted for his treatment of tragic themes and his use of a rich, classical prose style (Confessions of Nat Turner.). b.1925)
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“My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”
Ray Bradbury quotes (American science-fiction short stories and novels writer,1920)
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“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
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“When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
Margaret Laurence quotes
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
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“Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”
Dean Koontz quotes (American author)
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