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“Writers are the wind that sail words across the page.”
“Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.”
“It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.”
“Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.”
“What nobody tells you is that spending an entire day being paid to do something you love is sometimes a lot less fun than spending an entire day doing something you love for free.”
“But very little of it can do morethan start you on your way to the real, unimaginablydifficult goal of writing memorably. That work is doneslowly and in solitude, and it is as improbable as carryin...”
“Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.”
“...with a click, my novel would be born; it would come out into the light suddenly transformed from the hypothetical text composed in my imagination into finished, tangible thing with a real and in...”
“Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.”
“I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.”
“What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.”
“Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.”
“A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.”
“The best thing that can happen to me when I'm writing fiction is to lose sight of the fact that I'm writing at all. It's as though I enter into a kind of trance. I know I'm writing, but I don't THI...”
“Beware of being only a writer.”
“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.”
“The highest kind of writingwhich must not be confused withthe most ambitious kindbelongs to the realm of grace. Talent ispart of it, certainly; a thorough understanding of the secret laws,absolutel...”
“Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden....”
“A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.”
“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!”
