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“Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know”
― John Gardner

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

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

“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.”
― Mark Twain