“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
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Color headshot photo of author Dean Koontz smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled."
- Dean Koontz
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“The best writing just lets it sit there. Trust your readers, they’re pretty smart.”
Mitch Albom
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Headshot photo of author Brandon Sanderson looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I am a night writer. I’ve always been a bit of an insomniac, and I built my pre-publication career off the back of working a graveyard shift at the hotel, during which I would write books at the front desk."
- Brandon Sanderson
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“I want a book to take me to the place I want to be”
James McBride
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Photo of author William Gass sitting at his writing desk.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I write because I hate. A lot. Hard."
- William Gass
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Early color image of author Jean-Paul Sartre wearing a suit, sitting in front of a bookshelf, and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Words are loaded pistols."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Color headshot photo of poet Maya Angelou looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I try to live what I consider a “poetic existence.” That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work."
- Maya Angelou
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Color headshot photo of author Jane Yolen sitting in front of a sunny window and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"A writer is someone who begins by trying to catch insights as fireflies in a jar, but in the end needs to see them pinned to the page."
- Jane Yolen
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brown and white photo of author and poet Robert Penn Warren in a suit and looking off-camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"We're stuck with it in ourselves-- what we can write about, if anything; what you can make articulate; what voices you have in your insides and in your ear."
- Robert Penn Warren
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black and white headshot photo of novelist Angus Wilson looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I don't care to talk about a novel I'm doing because if I communicate the magic spell, even in an abbreviated form, it loses its force for me. Once you have talked, the act of communication has been made."
- Angus Wilson
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Early brown and white photo of writer Virginia Woolf in a simple dress and looking off camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"For it would seem ... that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
- Virginia Woolf
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Color photo of author Isaac Asimov mid-conversation on a couch.
Daily Writing Quote:
"A good science-fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."
-- Isaac Asimov
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“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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black and white photo headshot of Canadian writer Stephen Leacock wearing a suit and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the occurring which is difficult."
-- Stephen Leacock
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black and white photo of journalist, editor, and literary critic wearing a bow tie, smoking a cigarette, and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out a window."
- Burton Rascoe
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Headshot color photo of author Ted Nicholas standing outside and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"The writing of a best-seller represents only fraction of the total effort required to create one."
- Ted Nicholas
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“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales… I did put in Einstein’s famous equation E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers.”
Stephen Hawking
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black and white photo of writer P.G. Wodehouse lounging in a chair and smoking a pipe, while wearing a checkered sport coat and tie, and smiling at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."
- P.G. Wodehouse
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“I know there are children in your community with their own dreams…. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”
Dolly Parton
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Color image with dramatic lighting of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami leaning toward the camera with his hands partially folded in front of him and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, crating a complete landscape that I treasure."
- Haruki Murakami
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Color photo of American author and journalist Aaron Latham in a suit and tie, at a gala, and smiling off camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Some things can only be said in fiction, but that doesn't mean they aren't true."
- Aaron Latham
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black and white photo of American writer E.B. White working at a typewriter.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Be obscure clearly."
- E.B. White (on his advise to young writers)
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black and white photo of novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler wearing a suit, sitting, and opening an envelope.
Daily Writing Quote:
"The faster I write, the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them."
- Raymond Chandler
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black and white photo of poet Anne Sexton sitting outside on a lounge chair in the shade in a lawn, in a fashionable shoulderless dress, smoking a cigarette, and looking at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I will fool around on the typewriter. It might take me ten pages of nothing, of terrible writing, and then I'll think, 'That's what I mean!'"
- Anne Sexton
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“Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.”
Alice Walker
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Color photo of American author Dan Poynter wearing a dark suit, seated, holding a stack of books, and smiling broadly at the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"I hope you get as much pleasure reading my book as I got spending the money you paid for it."
- Dan Poynter
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“You only live twice: Once when you are born / And once when you look death in the face.”
You Only Live Twice
by Ian Fleming
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color headshot photo of American journalist and activist Gloria Steinem smiling at the camera and standing in front of a tree.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Writing... keeps me from believing everything I read."
- Gloria Steinem
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black and white photo of American writer Willa Cather writing with pen and paper at a table and looking toward the camera.
Daily Writing Quote:
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
- Willa Cather
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