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“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” —Thomas Jefferson #writing #quotes

“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.” —Ayn Rand #writing #quotes

“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.” — Bruce Springsteen

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” —Jack Kerouac #creativity #quotes

“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.” —Chinua Achebe #writing #quotes

“Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else... perhaps they're made of life.” —Philip Pullman #writing #quotes

“When you’re stuck, go back to your characters’ motivations.” —David Mamet #writing #quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami #reading #quotes

“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.” —Dan Stevens #creativity #quotes

“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” —John Gardner #writing #reading #quotes

“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next.” – William Zinnser #writing #quotes

“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.” ― Marcus Fabius Quintilianus #writing #quotes

“A lot of brilliant writing minds out there will never be heard from because they quit. Persistence is a major part of all this.” —Timothy Zahn #writing #quotes

“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life” —Elizabeth Gilbert #creativity #quotes

“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.” —Stephenie Meyer #writing #quotes

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” —Ernest Hemingway #writing #quotes

“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.” —Paula Danziger #writing #quotes

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” —Steven King #creativity #quotes

“Writing must always have intention because words have power.” —Suheir Hammad #writing #quotes

“Give rise to your future through creative endeavor.” —Judith Randall #creativity #quotes