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Writing Quotes by Jane Yolen
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
- You write to be read. That is the bottom line.
- Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
- Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
- Exercise the writing muscle every day.
- Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are…
- Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are…
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov