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There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
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I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
V. E. Schwab
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When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
Freida Pinto
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I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
Carrot Top
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I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.


Frans de Waal
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky
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It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance
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You become a great writer by writing.


Peter Thiel
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.


Ernest Hemingway
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Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.
Christopher Paolini
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Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
Enya
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The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
Christopher Paolini
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly
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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.


Peter Morgan
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I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
Nicholas Jarecki
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
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I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.
Tom Stoppard
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.
Doris Lessing
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Elon Musk
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