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"Every writer has to find their own way into writing."
— Margaret Mahy
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"You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words."
— Ngaio Marsh
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"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison
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"I write for the same reason I breathe... because if I didn't, I would die."
— Isaac Asimov
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"It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones."
— Ray Bradbury
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"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
— Jack London
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"I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles."
— Shannon Hale
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"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."
— E. L. Doctorow
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"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."
— Margaret Atwood
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"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."
— Joss Whedon
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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck
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"I love dealines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams
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"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."
— William Faulkner
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou