10 wonderful quotes about being a writer #amwriting #writer #writerslife

 

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“You fail only if you stop.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won’t wash them away.”

~ Anne Lamott

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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities, and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

~ Mel Brooks

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“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them out onto the page, then call them characters.”

~ C.K. Webb

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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”

~Henry Green

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“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”

~ Cornelia Funke

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“The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

~ Criss Jami, Killosophy

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“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”

~ Rod Serling

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“Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.”

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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“Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”

~ Jacob Nordby, Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to live your best life now