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“writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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