I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Ken Kesey

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To move freely you must be deeply rooted.

Bella Lewitzky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Lewitzky

Fear is forward…. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Renata Adler

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You have your brains, but it’s energy and desire that make you write your book.

James Salter

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Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page, they flare into desire.

Geoff Dyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Dyer

People do not deserve good writing. They are so pleased with bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A writer should not think he is bad or finished (if a book fails to find a market)….Every failure teaches something. You should have the feeling, as every experienced writer has, that there are more ideas where that one came from and that you are inexhaustible as long as you are alive.

Patricia Highsmith

(from Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame.

A.A. Milne

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Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning. Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Chico Xavier

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We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon