Writers Block PH

For writers who are passionate about the written word and in search of new and better ways to improve their craft and earn more from freelance writing

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“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

—Thomas Jefferson

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“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”

—Ayn Rand

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“First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It’s one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

—Jack Kerouac

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“I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.”

—Chinua Achebe

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“Stories aren't made of language: they're made of something else... perhaps they're made of life.”

—Philip Pullman

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“When you’re stuck, go back to your characters’ motivations.”

—David Mamet

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

– Haruki Murakami

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“The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.”

—Dan Stevens

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“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”

—John Gardner

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“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next.”

– William Zinnser

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“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”

― Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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“A lot of brilliant writing minds out there will never be heard from because they quit. Persistence is a major part of all this.”

—Timothy Zahn

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“A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life”

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.”

—Stephenie Meyer

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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

—Ernest Hemingway

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“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”

—Paula Danziger

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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

—Steven King

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“Writing must always have intention because words have power.”

—Suheir Hammad

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“Give rise to your future through creative endeavor.”

—Judith Randall

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