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I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.

I write because I know magic happens

A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.

I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.

If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

Writing is the high alchemy of the soul that combines words and ideas to create magic.

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist

Take your ego out of your story.

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of jealousy. The man or woman who for the sake of family life, children, takes up work he does not like, disciplines himself, sacrifices some fantasy he had once, to travel or to paint, or even possibly to write, may feel toward the artist and writer a jealousy of his adventurous life. The artist and the writer have generally paid the full price for their independence and for the privilege of doing work they love, or for their artistic rebellions against standardized living or values.

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!

Chinese fortune cookie

Sergeant Boyle was an Earthling. He was the only Earthling on the expedition. In fact, he was the only creature from the Milky Way. The other members were from all over the place. The expedition was a joint effort supported by about two hundred galaxies. Boyle wasn't a technician. He was an English teacher. The thing was that Earth was the only place in the whole known Universe where language was used. It was a unique Earthling invention. Everybody else used mental telepathy, so Earthlings could get pretty good jobs as language teachers just about anywhere they went. The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information. But language, with its slow, narrow meanings, made it possible to think about one thing at a time -- to start thinking in terms of projects.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

Life is sacred story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

JT Sanz

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

So she's one of the grande dames of fandom? The Madame de Staël of the Starveil world?

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we're going to for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment.

I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.

You can tell the number of hours spent on a work by counting the number of coffee rings on your desk.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.

Angela Thirkell

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

Ha Jin

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

JT Sanz

God is the creator of all good plot twists!

Shannon L. Alder

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer.

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

The key is in the craft.

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins.

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

Susan J. McIntire

Writers don’t write about just anybody.

Write before the sun comes up.

Own your truth.

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.

It’s always more than just a story.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Film brings people together.

Feel yourself climbing the mountain.

I can’t sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself.

The story becomes clearer with time.

Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.

Storytelling keeps life going.

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