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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#job #make #time #write #you

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#enough #feels #find #his #look

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i can #most #people #recorded #say

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #art

I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#words #writing #music

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. ↗

— James Rollins

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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspirational #writing #art

Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option. ↗