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“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” — Dan Poynter —

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“Ideas are cheap. It’s the execution that is all important.” — George R.R. Martin —

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 All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, “Something’s wrong, let’s change it for the better.” —Sonia Sanchez—

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 A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius. —George Edward Woodberry—

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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. —Ishmael Reed—

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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 —

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“Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.” — William S. Burroughs —

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“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.” — Mark Twain —

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“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott —

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle —

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“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” — George Orwell —

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“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” — Stephen King —

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” — Henry David Thoreau —

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“Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende —

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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” — Natalie Goldberg —

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“The story must strike a nerve in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk.” — Susan Sontag —

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make.” ― Truman Capote ―

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." —W. H. Auden—

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” — Eudora Welty --

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” — Annie Proulx --