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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #2
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #3
    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #6
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #7
    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

  • #8
    L.M. Nelson
    “Write our own story; don't let anyone else hold the pen.”
    L.M. Nelson

  • #9
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #10
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    Jean Genet

  • #11
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #12
    Suzy  Davies
    “Writers are method actors. They become their character. They feel what he or she feels. They switch between viewpoints, always with a clear sense of their own selves as writers, and yet somehow losing themselves in their Art”
    Suzy Davies

  • #13
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #15
    Suze Orman
    “Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”
    Suze Orman

  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft



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