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• We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

  Somerset Maugham

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• We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there’s no other motive except the even baser one of making money….

  Thomas Bernhard

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• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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• In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

  Rose Tremain

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• The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

  Hanif Kureishi

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• Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

  Shannon L. Alder

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• Sometimes it’s impossible to say certain things … Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

  Arnošt Lustig

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• Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

  Don Roff

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• If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

  Truman Capote

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• An inspirational writer’s life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

  Shannon L. Alder

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• Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

  Hilaire Belloc

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• I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.

  John Steinbeck

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• Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

  Margaret Jean Langstaff

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• Follow the rules until you make them.

  Luke Green

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• There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can’t.

  Jarod Kintz

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• Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

  Stephen King

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• Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

  Brenda Ueland

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• I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

  Umberto Eco

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• Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

  Guadalupe Neri

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• I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I’d be staring at a blank page forever.

  R.J. Dennis

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