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“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
~Gustave Flaubert

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“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

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“I’ll get the book done if I just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.”
~John Steinbeck

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“In a time of destruction, create something.”

~Maxine Hong Kingston

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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
~ Frank Herbert

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“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
~ Margaret Mitchell

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
~ C.S. Lewis

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
~Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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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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“I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.”
~Flannery O’Connor