Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstances too – bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you’ve no longer been bested by the events.

Louise Glück

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In science there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Ben Bova

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Every story I create creates me. I write to create myself.

Octavia E. Butler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

I am a being composed of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Tahereh Mafi

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

“Classic”. A book which people praise and don’t read.

Mark Twain

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

Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Gene Fowler

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

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

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

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

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We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Oliver Sacks

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

When I was a little boy they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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