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You can have practically anything you want in this world, if you have great credit. — Chris Mentillo
Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating. — T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you. — T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
SUCCESS in WRITING occurs when your DREAMS are BIGGER than your EXCUSES. — T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly g — Ariel Gordon
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I re — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from — Karl R. Popper
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every — Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood
Too many irons, not enough fire. — S. Kelley Harrell
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him — Socrates
If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. T — Donald Harington
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of tho — Michael Chabon
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron, The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work h — Sandra Brown
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing — David Gerrold
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corner — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry