"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children."

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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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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. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

Stephen King, American Author

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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."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."

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"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

"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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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."

"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."

"All is mystery, but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."

"There is no education like adversity."

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."