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It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done. ↗

— Elinor Fuchs

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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas. ↗

— Linus Pauling

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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. ↗

— Thomas Harris

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I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough! ↗

— Brooklyn Hudson

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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words. ↗

— Valerie Sherwood

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