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Writing quotes inspire, educate, and encourage us to keep working on our craft. Over the years, I\u2019ve collected writing quotes to read and reread during struggling times. The following quotes just might lift you from the woes that come from a calling and career that requires many long hours alone. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI write for the same reason I breathe \u2013 because if I didn’t, I would die.\u201d Isaac Asimov <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWrite like you’re in love. Edit like you’re in charge.\u201d James Scott Bell <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRemember: plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.\u201d Ray Bradbury   <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDon’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.\u201d Anton Chekhov <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is perfectly okay to write garbage\u2014as long as you edit brilliantly.\u201d C. J. Cherryh <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWriters possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.\u201d David Corbett <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.\u201d Anne Frank <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cFairy tales are more than true: Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.\u201d Neil Gaiman <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know <\/span><\/span>words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, <\/span><\/span>with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets <\/span><\/span>spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls <\/span><\/span>of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.\u201d Ursula K. Le Guin <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.\u201d Ernest Hemingway <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.\u201d Harper Lee <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou are a WRITER. The \u2018normal\u2019 ship sailed without you long ago.\u201d Terri Main <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI want a story to take me to a place that I\u2019ve never been to before and make it come vividly alive for me.\u201d George R. R. Martin <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe job of the writer is to get your main character up a tree and then throw rocks.\u201d  Vladimir Nabokov <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.\u201d Richard Price <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m always pretending that I\u2019m sitting across from somebody. I\u2019m telling a story, and I don\u2019t want them to get up until I\u2019m finished.\u201d James Patterson <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA writer begins by breathing life into his characters. But if you are very lucky, they breathe life into you.\u201d Caryl Phillips. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time- proof that humans can work magic!\u201d Carl Sagan <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.\u201d Dr. Seuss <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A few personal writing quotes that came from trying to figure it all out: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA writer looks at the colors of each new day and creates a breathless moment.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to tackle the tough issues with grace and truth in the pages of a great story.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting is a sacred adventure.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTo write well, one must first experience life.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen life scrapes and scars your heart, it’s just a future plot twist.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting romantic suspense is like putting together a puzzle with pieces shaped like hearts and daggers.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting quotes can make us laugh or cry, try or quit, cheer or inspire, but they always speak to our hearts.\u201d DiAnn Mills <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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