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“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

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