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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the wr — William Faulkner
Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “ — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. — Anne Rice
Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side bene — Jerry Stahl
Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you — Stephen King
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo. — Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding — Will Self
Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start wi — scavola
Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing — L.L. Barkat
To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse a — Gerard de Marigny, The Watchman of Ephraim
We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and deligh — L.L. Barkat
Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in — Holly Lisle
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — Neil Gaiman
Be prepared to work hard to be a writer. — Sandra Brown
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing
The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and mak — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers. — M. Kirin
I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect tim — Jonathan Harnisch, Porcelain Utopia
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appea — E.A. Bucchianeri