If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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Jackie Collins
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --
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Anonymous
If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
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Nikki Giovanni
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
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Alexei Maxim Russell
...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
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Andrea A. Lunsford
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All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.
Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.
But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.
Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.
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