If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

-- Stephen King

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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

- E. L. Doctorow

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Any method is right, every method is right, if it expresses what we wish to express, if we are #writers.

~ Virginia Woolf

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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

-- E.B. White

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Don't give up on your dreams. It's never too late to start.

~ Nora Roberts

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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

– #BarbaraKingsolver

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The first draft is a skeleton .… just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising.

-- Mark Twain

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A professional #writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

-- Richard Bach

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

~Anton Chekhov

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