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Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.Micere Githae Mugo
Write what should not be forgotten.Isabel Allende
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.Natalie Goldberg
Writer’s block is the biggest myth out there. The idea that you’re just lost for any possible words isn’t some vague illness that strikes people when they’re trying to be creative. You’re not missing the words; you’re missing the research. All ideas are a combination of preexisting ideas. So if you’re “out” of new ideas it’s probably because you don’t have enough old ideas to combine. Go back and read more. Or spend more time mapping out the book. Don’t show up to the keyboard. Without a plan and then tell the world you have writer’s block. You’re lying to us and to yourself.David Burkus
Write drunk. Edit sober.Ernest Hemingway
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.Larry L. King
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.Enid Bagnold
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.Stephen King
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
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