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  • If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

    Stephen King

  • Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

    Neil Gaiman

  • Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.

    William Faulkner

  • You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

    Ray Bradbury

  • After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

    Philip Pullman

  • That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

    Tim O'Brien

  • A word after a word after a word is power.

    Margaret Atwood

  • History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

    Winston S. Churchill

  • There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

    Maya Angelou

  • Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

    Daphne du Maurier

  • A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

    Stephen King

  • A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

    Thomas Mann

  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    Stephen King

  • If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

    Stephen King

  • There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.

    Beatrix Potter

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