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

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

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

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts