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If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
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Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the… — Marion Jensen Copy Share Image
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When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
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