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#1

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

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#2

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

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#3

“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

tags: writing

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#4

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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#5

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

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#6

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

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#7

“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]”
― Philip Pullman

tags: atheism, atheist, difficulty, possibility, sarcasm, spiritual, spirituality, understanding, writing

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#8

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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#9

“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”
― John Green

tags: dancing, funny, writing

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