"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
- Richard Bach

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"You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
― Jodi Picoult

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
― Sylvia Plath

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"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."
- Stephen King

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
― Maya Angelou