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Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

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When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.

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Arithmetic is the death of story.

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Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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Goals are dreams with a deadline.

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Shut up and write.

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I’m not a big fan of inspiration. I’m too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss… I write a lot, and I’m not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can’t fix a blank page.

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Antony Johnston

File under “Hard Truths”: the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

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(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I’m feeling inspired. It’s mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work – and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.” — Lucille Ball

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Khaled Hosseini

It’s often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It’s what writing comes down to–worrying that things aren’t going to work out.

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Just start the sentence…and see what happens. This is how we write.

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