It doesn't matter how many great book ideas you have in your head if you can't finish writing one.
—Joe Bunting
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Remember we are mortal, but poetry is not.
—Patti Smith
Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow.
—Carrie Fisher
The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
—James Baldwin
You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good.
—J.K. Rowling
I am not responsible for the ideas and opinions that my characters express.
—William Faulkner
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
—Ray Bradbury
Remember to get the weather in your damn book — weather is very important.
—Ernest Hemingway
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