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"No dogs or children allowed." --sign in libraries in the early 1900s.
"Fiction is an appealing character, striving against great odds, toward a worthwhile goal." --Anon
"When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color."--Anais Nin
"After the first million words, it gets easier." --Stephen Overholzer, author
"When it comes to disciplining yourself to write, guilt is very useful."--Susan Meyers, author
"When every character is wonderful and loves everyone else, and they all live lives of joy and happiness--there can be no story." --Carol Farley, author
"Writing a novel is like driving at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." --E.L. Doctorow, author
"If you want to write, keep cats." --Aldous Huxley
"They say the best test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'" --Samuel Butler
If you are doing what you are meant to do, opportunities will present themselves as needed." --Joseph Campbell
"Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone." --Michael Crichton
"You don't have to write, you get to write." --anon
"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept; you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere." --Anne Lamott, author
"Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination." --Alice Sebold, author
"Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open." --David Lubar, author
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me." --Anatole France
"There is a joy in coming up with a phrase, a word, a piece of the plot, that is unlike any other joy." --Jackie Briggs Martin, author
"For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment." --Ernest Hemingway
"A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it." --Paula Fox
"A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit." --Francois Rabelais
"The beginning is the most important part of the book."--Plato (and every editor in New York...)
"Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time." -David Lubar, author
"Chocolate...is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits." --Baron Justus von Liebig, German chemist
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work." --Emile Zola
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --Martin Luther King Jr.
"No manuscript ever sold in a desk drawer." --Jean Thompson, author
