- I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. – Stephen King
- It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. – Ernest Hemingway
- If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter how you write. – Somerset Maugham
- It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. – C. J. Cherryh
- Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. – Ray Bradbury
- If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer. – David Brin
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