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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett
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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King
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“Write what should not be forgotten.” – Isabel Allende
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“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” – Aristotle
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.” – Joss Whedon
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
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“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank
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“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.” – Jules Renard
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“Writing is the painting of the voice.” – Voltaire
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“You fail only if you stop writing.” – Ray Bradbury
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“Writing is both mask and unveiling.” – E.B. White
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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” – Natalie Goldberg FAMOUS HOSPITALITY QUOTES
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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” – Saul Bellow
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“Writing is its own reward.” – Henry Miller
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“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard
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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” – Gloria Steinem
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“Writing is the supreme solace.” – W. Somerset Maugham
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” – Richard Bach
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“Writing is a struggle against silence.” – Carlos Fuentes
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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” – Graham Greene