Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -Frank Zappa

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. - Wally Amos

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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace. - Patrick Ness

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can. – Neil Gaiman

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It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. - Jack Kerouac

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