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Lose Yourself

“The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.”

— George R. R. Martin

Frost on Style

“Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”

— Robert Frost

Under the Skin

“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

— Mel Brooks

Engineer of Souls

“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”

— Joseph Stalin

A Writer Is…

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Thomas Mann

Live & Write, But Don’t Live & Write

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

— Karl Marx

Nothing — Everything

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

— Walt Whitman

Author Voice

“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”

—Allen Ginsberg, WD

Reading or Writing? READING.

“Reading is more important than writing.”

— Roberto Bolaño

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“The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you’re hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.”

— George R. R. Martin

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“Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”

— Robert Frost

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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

— Mel Brooks

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“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”

— Joseph Stalin

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“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Thomas Mann

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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

— Karl Marx

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“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

— Walt Whitman

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“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”

—Allen Ginsberg, WD

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“Reading is more important than writing.”

— Roberto Bolaño

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