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• It’s my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

  Elmore Leonard

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• As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

  Shannon Hale

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• Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

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• Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

  Anthony Burgess

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• Writing is more about discovery than invention.

  Diane Setterfield

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• Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon mid race.

  Chris Baty

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• I write to believe in goodness.

  Red Haircrow

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• Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

  Kami Garcia

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• Someone’s writing down your mistakes, someone’s documenting your downfall.

  Nicole Blackman

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• That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

  Raymond Carver

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• Writers are born, not created.

  Tim Campbell

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• Writing is thinking on paper.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• Examine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that don’t serve any purpose.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• All plots are cliche.

  Jincy Willett

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• That’s the hard work of writing. The imagining.

  Jincy Willett

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• There’s something intimidating, yet exciting about a blank page.

  Chris Stocking

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• When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.

  Fierce Dolan

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• Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

  Paul Di Filippo

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