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Writing Quotes
  • Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. - Jodi Picoult
  • One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. – Piers Anthony
  • It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. – C. J. Cherryh
  • First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! – Ray Bradbury
  • Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. – William Faulkner
  • Writing is its own reward. – Henry Miller
  • There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. – Terry Pratchett
  • If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. – Truman Capote
  • Just write every day of your life. Then see what happens. Most… have very pleasant careers. - Ray Bradbury
  • This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. — Neil Gaiman
  • A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
  • You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. ~ John Rogers
  • You fail only if you stop writing. ~ Ray Bradbury
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