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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacill — Erin Bow
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When di — C. JoyBell C.
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them — Dorothy Parker
We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are — Kilroy J. Oldster
Heavy as such things areAfter the wordslide, the writing begins."From "Word Quake — Eileen Granfors, And More White Sheets: An expanded text edition
We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them. — Rodger Kamenetz
The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, an — Traci Lea LaRussa
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I hate writing, I love having written. — Dorothy Parker
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, — George R.R. Martin
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. — Terry Pratchett
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you — Octavia E. Butler
Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour m — Quentin R. Bufogle
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. — Lois McMaster Bujold
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult
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
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emo — Red Haircrow