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"I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee."
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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
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"If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff."
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"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
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"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain."
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"As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.""Yes, that's right," I agreed."I've noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?"I nodded assuredly and shared my answer. "BECAUSE."My interviewer looked surprised, as though he'd expected an impressive adjective or some rare verb. "That's your favorite word? Why?"I tried not to smirk. "Because."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel-to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience."
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"The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche. I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth."
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"If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say " except to go soar with the freakin' eagles."
Motivation
"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."
Creativity
"The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire."
Aspiration
"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."
Business
"We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best."
Innovation
"Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course."
Leadership
"Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit."
Entrepreneurship
"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."
Innovation
"Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion."
Ambition
"In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too."
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