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“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon