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• But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

  Charles Nodier

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• Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

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• A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it’s just more pretentious.

  Christy Leigh Stewart

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

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• We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  Steven Pressfield

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  Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

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• Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

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• Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

  S.A.R.K.

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• I get angry about things, then go on and work.

  Toni Morrison

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• I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

  Arthur Holitscher

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• I’ve received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, “You should lay off the f-bombs.” The other is, “You should add more f-bombs.

  Lincoln Park

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• Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

  Jacques Martin Barzun

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• Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

  Jacques Martin Barzun

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• Genetic code is a divine writing.

  Toba Beta

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• An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

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• Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

  Jen Knox

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• The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

  Don Roff

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• Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

  Brian Keene

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• You don’t make art out of good intentions.

  Gustave Flaubert

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