1. “To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” — Allen Ginsberg

2. “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” — Cyril Connolly

3. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury

4. “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” — Oscar Wilde

5. “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke

6. “A writer’s voice is not just what they say but how they say it.” — Joyce Carol Oates

7. “The best style is the style you don’t notice.” — Somerset Maugham

8. “A writer is a world trapped in a person.” — Victor Hugo

9. “There is no greater burden than carrying an untold story.” — Maya Angelou

10. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” — Virginia Woolf

11. “The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara

12. “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace

13. “If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” — Somerset Maugham

14. “The duty of a writer is to keep on writing.” — William Styron

15. “Your voice is your fingerprint on the page. No one else can tell your story the way you can.” — Unknown

1. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — Rudyard Kipling

2. “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” — Pearl Strachan Hurd

3. “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain

4. “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” — Henry Ward Beecher

5. “A drop of ink may make a million think.” — Lord Byron

6. “One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac

7. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” — Aldous Huxley

8. “With words, we govern men.” — Benjamin Disraeli

9. “Words create worlds.” — Pierre du Plessis

10. “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus

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1. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost

2. “Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende

3. “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” — E.L. Doctorow

4. “A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.” — Joseph Conrad

5. “Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” — Kurt Vonnegut

6. “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” — T.S. Eliot

7. “I write to discover what I know.” — Flannery O’Connor

8. “You don’t choose writing. Writing chooses you.” — Carlos Fuentes

9. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin

10. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” — Samuel Johnson

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1. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” — Stephen King

2. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway

3. “Don’t be a ‘writer.’ Be writing.” — William Faulkner

4. “If a story is in you, it has to come out.” — William Faulkner

5. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.” — Neil Gaiman

6. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” — Anne Lamott

7. “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

8. “I write for the same reason I breathe—because if I didn’t, I would die.” — Isaac Asimov

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