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“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”— J. K. Rowling
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“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”— John Steinbeck
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“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”— Ben Okri
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”— Charles Kingsley
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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”— Isadora Duncan
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“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”— Paddy Chayefsky
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“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”— Gustave Flaubert
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“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”— Karen Thompson Walker
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“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”— Augusten Burroughs
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“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.”— Jeffrey Eugenides