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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
E. L. Doctorow
“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
“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”
J. K. Rowling
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”
Truman Capote
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities”
Dr. Seuss
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.”
Seth Godin
“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
Stephen King
“Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
Steven Pressfield
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
Haruki Murakami
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