"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." ― Aristotle
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled." ― Dean Koontz
"This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit." ― Stephen King
"In order to learn, one must change one's mind." ― Orson Scott Card
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ― Toni Morrison
"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them." ― Stephen King
"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins." ― Neil Gaiman
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule." ― Stephen King
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." ― W. Somerset Maugham
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted." ― Jules Renard
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." ― Ernest Hemingway
"I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon." ― Philip Pullman
"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way." ― Ray Bradbury
"I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die." ― Isaac Asimov
"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself." ― Franz Kafka
"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ― Gloria Steinem
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