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“It's easy to allow the world to collapse down to our own stories. To see ourselves as the central figure in the only story…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“It’s up to you to navigate the obstacles and the difficulties and constantly drive toward success despite all odds against you. The best stories,…

— Nate Green

“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble…

— CK Webb

“The stories of others who have pushed past their hardships and difficulties to become great should be terrific encouragement for whatever situation you are…

— Nate Green

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in…

— Marge Piercy

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and…

— Dorothy Allison