Inspiration

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released ~Natalie Goldberg

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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there is no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward ~Anne Lamott

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I wrote from a sense of need. I needed something to do. You can't just sleep all day long ~Snoopy

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The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write ~Unknown

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Fiction is the truth within the lie ~ Anon.

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Don't get it right, get it written ~James Thurber

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One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from the experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give ~James Baldwin

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There is no perfect time to write. There's only now ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads ~Erica Jong

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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for ~Ray Bradbury

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Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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If a story is in you, it has got to come out ~William Faulkner

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A writer is someone who has written today ~J.A. Jance

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How can you write if you can't cry? ~Ring Lardner

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I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable ~Truman Capote

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A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time ~W. D. Wetherell