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

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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