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CONSIDER WHAT SOME WRITERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT WRITING:

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway

"Writing enables you to enter places inaccessible in real life, even the most forbidden spaces. More than that, it invites you to take guests along." -- Ivan Klima, Czech author and survivor of Theresienstadt

“I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I’m one of the world’s greatest rewriters.” – James A. Michener

“A professional writer can make himself write on a bad day.” – Norman Mailer

“How can you write if you can’t cry?” – Ring Lardner

“I think we write to give voice to experience.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” – Stephen King

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – Stephen King

“You would probably do just as well to get that plot business out of your head and start simply with a character or anything that you can make come alive.” – Flannery O’Connor

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden,” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” – Gloria Steinem

"You've got to write something every day. Some days go better than others. Writing comes easily -- once I've got it right." -- Brian Doyle

“When I make a word do a lot of work… I always pay it extra.” – Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass

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