Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Nelson Mandela

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When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it. ― Mik Everett

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. – Steve Jobs

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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy. - Adam Sandler

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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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