"I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will."

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"I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."

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"Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others."

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"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't."

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"Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks."

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"Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil."

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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."

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"I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice."

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"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."

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"Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go."

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"You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice."

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"I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens."

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