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“The road to hell is paved by adverbs.”

Stephen King

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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” Stephen King

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“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” Lisa See

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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining: show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov

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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for the ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” Virginia Woolf

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“I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that’s the job of art.”

Andre Dubus III

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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” Robert Louis Stevenson

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“A word after a word after a word is power.” Margaret Atwood

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“I write to discover what I know.” Flannery O’Connor

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“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.” Ayn Rand

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“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” William Faulkner

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“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” Peter Hanke

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“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”Ray Bradbury

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“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.” May Sarton

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“Anyone who was once a child should have least one children’s book in them.”Michael Rosen

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“Find the way of writing that works for you.”Philip Pullman

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“A basic idea is something that can be said in one sentence and I try to make it two.”Ken Follett

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“I am trying to create interesting characters and show how their lives are devastated by a series of events, how they fight against adversity and how they triumph. I elaborate more and more. Two sentences become three, and before too long I’ve got three paragraphs, a page, two pages and so on…”

Ken Follet

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“Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up…”

Charles Dickens

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“The space between the young readers eyeballs and the painted page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.”

Terry Pratchett

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“If you want to be a writer, then you’ve got to write. There’s no magic involved, the more you write the more you learn and the better you get.”

Darren Shan

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“The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.”

Susan Cooper

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“I would tell my younger self to be braver, to take more risks with my writing, and to be prepared to redraft and redraft and redraft.”

Susan Cooper

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“Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato.”

Susan Cooper

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“Write what should not be forgotten.” Isabel Allende

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“Good writing is like a windowpane.” George Orwell

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“New ideas pass through three periods: It can’t be done. It probably can be done but it’s not worth doing. I knew it was a good idea all along.” George Orwell

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“Books, the children of the brain.” Jonathan Swift

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“I write because it’s a chance to remind people just how miraculous and amazing ordinary things are.” Frank Cottrell Boyce

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“Sometimes I’ll try to evoke a mood for a scene with a certain song.” Christopher Edge

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“Write something that is unique to you. Don’t think of it as being creative then you’ll freeze up. Think of it as writing something that only you can write.”

Alwyn Hamilton

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“Basically write today.. just do it lots, just write as many different types of things that you can… it doesn’t have to be anything in particular but the best thing to do is to get loads of words on the page and keep going and improve all the time.”

Anna McKerrow