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The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren’t failing, then we aren’t doing anything interesting.

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Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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Francesca Lia Block

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel.

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Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.

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William Wadsworth

Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.

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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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Charles Bukowski

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

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Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

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La plus grande chute est celle qu’on fait du haut de l’innocence.

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Haruki Murakami

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

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