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1. Learn to live frugally and don’t get into debt.
2. Write what you want, not what you think “the market” wants.
3. Turn off the television.
4. Don’t major in Creative Writing in college. Chances are it will drain the life out of your creativity.
5. Never, ever criticize yourself during a first draft.
6. Have the courage to revise your work.
7. Read every night before you go to sleep.
8. Do not pressure yourself by saying “I have to get this published by the time I am 20 (or 30, or 40, or 80, etc.)
9. Write the story in your heart.
10. Pay attention to William Faulkner’s wise words. He said “Don’t be ‘a writer.’ Be writing.
- Advice for Aspiring Authors, Laurie Halse Anderson
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
- Ray Bradbury (via abstractelements)
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
- Maya Angelou (via daianochka)
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It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
- John Waters (via liquidnight)
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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner
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Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
- Roddy Doyle’s “Ten Rules For Writing Fiction”
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