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“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.” ~ Zane Grey

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver

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“The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously. ~ James Joyce

“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.” ~ Quentin Tarantino

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“In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.” ~ Doris Lessing

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“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.

~ Seamus Heaney

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“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.” 

~ Elizabeth Bowen

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“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham

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“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”