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“Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”
― Stephen King


“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou


“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.”
― H.P. Lovecraft
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There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
[@Fyodor Dosteovsky]


I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
[@Leo Tolstoy]


A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
[@Leo Tolstoy]


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]


What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.
[@Franz Kafka]


It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
[@William Faulkner]

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If you can quit then quit. If you can't, you're a writer -R.A. Salvatore.
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Elmore Leonard


The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth


I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy


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 Zinsser
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
[@Virginia Woolf]

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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse


“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...

...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
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You fail only if you stop writing. ~ Ray Bradbury
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"The reason your stories are being rejected is because you're writing crap. Stop writing crap!".

-Harlan Ellison to J Michael Straczynski
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“That depends on the length of the speech. If it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.”
Woodrow Wilson, on the length of time it takes to prepare his speeches


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Practice makes perfect!
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"You will find your confidence and begin to write fearlessly the moment you stop caring about what anyone else thinks." ~ William Kenower
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A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities

J.R.R Tolkein
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“Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.”
"Stephen King"


Yes, I played Alan Wake~
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“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”
Hunter S. Thompson

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"Your design fails when people need to work around your system to make what they want, instead of using the system to compliment and enhance what they create."
- Me, spouting random philosophical bullshit for another context that actually seemed to fit OK here.
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"A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God."
Sidney Sheldon
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
Attributed to Samuel Johnson
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