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Tears are words that need to be written.

~Paulo Coelho

A word after a word after a word is power.

~Margaret Atwood

You can make anything by writing.

~C.S. Lewis

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

~Franz Kafka

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

~Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.

~Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

~Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

~Anne Frank

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

~Henry David Thoreau

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly,they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

~Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

Read, read, read. Read everything,'trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

~William Faulkner

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

~Robert Frost

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

~Saul Bellow

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

~Benjamin Franklin

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

~Toni Morrison

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

~Mark Twain

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

~Anaïs Nin

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

~Stephen King

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

~Madeleine L'Engle

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