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Fiction Writer Inspirational Quotes (381)

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I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.
Amy Plum
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Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.
Joe McGinniss
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Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?
Jessica Zafra
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You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the developed world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.
Ben Fountain
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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Rosemary Mahoney
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The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.
Alexander Chee
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There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
Janet Asimov
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
Adam Haslett
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There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.
Fredric Brown
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Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
Kameron Hurley
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Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.
William C. Dietz
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I never listen to music when I'm writing.
Ben Fountain
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If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?
Colin Beavan
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Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
Adam Haslett
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.
Kim Chernin
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It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.
Molly Antopol
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I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.
Emily Raboteau
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One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.
Jessica Zafra
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As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.
Alexander Chee
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The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.
Marjorie Harris
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The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
Brian Lumley
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Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
Jerry Pournelle
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I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
Rosemary Mahoney
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