“Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet.”

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“Before you begin to write a sentence, imagine the scene you want to paint with your words. Imagine that you are the character and feel what the character feels. Smell what the character smells, and hear with that character’s ears. For an instant, before you begin to write, see and feel what you want the reader to see and feel.”

—Othello Bach

“If you are using dialogue - say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech. ”

—John Steinbeck

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

—Ernest Hemingway

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it”

—Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.” ”

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Elie Wiesel

“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.”

—Mary Wortley Montagu

“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

—Tom Bissell

“I write because I do not know what I think until I read what I say.”

—Flannery O’Connor

"Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of."

- Kurt Vonnegut

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. ”

—Somerset Maugham

“No matter what you write, some people will adore it and some will want to burn it with fire. Which is hard, but both are better than "meh".”

—Victoria Schwab
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