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When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words — King Samuel Benson
I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one. — Karen A. Chase
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper b — Samuel Beckett
Publish. Be damned. Repeat. — Tassa Desalada
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you pu — Larry Correia
Q: What do you think is magical about fiction?DFW: ... The first line of attack for that question is that there is this — David Foster Wallace
Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments. — Lailah GiftyAkita
If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a bo — Witold Gombrowicz, Diary
I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive. — Paul W. Feenstra
I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them — Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I — Dori Ann Dupré
If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers. — Jack R. Cotner
You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of tw — Théophile Gautier
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, — Ralph Ellison, The Collected Essays
Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer. — Julie Rodelli
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination — Danielle M. Maistry
For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read. — Brett Armstrong
In the minds of some people, writing is one thing, but thinking is quite another. If they define writing as spelling, th — George Hillocks Jr.
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. — Christopher Morley