Why I love these words
They are mine
You cannot change that
You cannot rearrange that
Try as you might
You cannot take away
All that they mean to me

Maddy Kobar

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I guess I have no choice
But to toss all novels under the rug
Nothing can compete with the poetry bug

Maddy Kobar

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Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.

Peter Tieryas

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And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

Lawrence Lessig

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Art does what reality cannot.

Jayme K.

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The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

Mike Carey

Tags: writing writing-process

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I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Tobias Wolff

Tags: writing story memory nonfiction

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[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.

Salman Rushdie

Tags: life advice writing inspiration carpe-diem

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Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Tags: humor happiness writing

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Identify yourself,” Colleen demanded. “I’ve got a bat and I will beat the living shit out of you if you so much as blink. I’ve got a black belt,” she lied frantically, “and…and…a gun. A big one.” - Colleen O’Brien

Shannon MacLeod

Tags: writing sex scotland witchcraft tarot rt-book-reviews shannon-macleod trs-featured-author

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