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“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.” — Maryann Gestwicki Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.” — Susie Smith Copy Share Image
“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.” — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.” — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
“It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“This is my commandment,” Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, “That you love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12).… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods — probably too much you’re in the… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.” — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
