Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
Lee Child
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."
Leo Tolstoy
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
Louisa May Alcott
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey
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
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
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