Inspiration

• "If you want to be a writer, you should do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King
• "A writer is not a writer because he writes well and easily because he has incredible talent, or because all he does is gold. A writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing shows you Any sign of promise, you continue to write anyway. "- Junot Diaz
• "A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than for other people." - Thomas Mann
• "And by the way, everything in life is writable if you have the courage to go out to do it, and imagination to improvise. The worst enemy of creativity is doubt." - Sylvia Plath
• "I'm reading six books at once, the only way to read it, since, as you'll agree, a book is just a single note unattended, and to get the sound full, it takes ten others at the same time "- Virginia Woolf

"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word." - Margaret Atwood

• "The books the world calls immoral are the books that show the world their own shame." - Oscar Wilde
• "Anxiety is the demonstration of creativity." T. S. Eliot

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• "The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later time.Otherwise you begin to apologize- You should see writing as emerging as a long roll of ink from the index finger of the right hand, you should see your left hand erasing them. " Margaret Atwood
• "Use an active, non-passive voice. And delete longer words when shorter ones work so well." -George Orwell
• "Cut out all exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Careful construction of details can make all the difference in your writing." Caress detail, divine detail. "-Vladimir Nabokov
• "Drama, instead of telling us the whole life of a man, should put him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when untied, all man is visible." Leo Tolstoy

"Be unpredictable." Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

• She struggled to use rhyme unexpectedly, but always properly.Even the most unusual rhyme, she felt, should never intrude in the direction of the line, neither should the normal order of words, the easy tone of vernacular expression, be Plucked just to save a rhyme. " -Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton