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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit… — Terry Brooks
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. — M H Abrams
Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really… — James W. Pennebaker
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent… — Maxwell Perkins
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along… — Grant Morrison
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what… — Charles de Lint
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. — Ellie Goulding
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — Stephen King
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground,… — Alan Moore
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make… — Meg Rosoff
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts… — Emma Thompson
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the… — Lynda Barry
... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away… — Elizabeth Sims
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't… — Kim Addonizio
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with… — Elmore Leonard
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. — Bertrand Russell
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… — Jane Yolen
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you… — Anne Rice
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… — Anne Lamott
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the… — Harper Lee
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe… — Stephen King

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