1. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather 2. Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. - Richard Curtis 3. Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - J. P. Donleavy 4. Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good. - William Faulkner 5. A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. - E. M. Forster 6. Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. - John Scalzi 7. The historian records, but the novelist creates. - E. M. Forster 8. My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it. - Ernest Hemingway 9. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing i
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