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Steven Pressfield

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't....

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real...

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of...

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning...

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and...

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to...

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever...

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman....

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not...

Mario Vargas-Llosa

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as...

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good...

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at...

"I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny -...

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're...

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?

Horacio Quiroga

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your...

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in,...

Nancy M. Malone

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write....

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe...

"Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the

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