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...If I’m not occasionally laughing out loud, welling up, or getting an increased heart rate while I’m writing, I’m not doing it right...

— Ali Sparkes

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...A really good book is one that never leaves me once I’ve read it; a story and characters and scenes which haunt me forever after...

...The best thing is vanishing into other worlds, particularly when the world is in crisis!...

...Write anything at all – even a shopping list – when you’re daunted by a blank screen. Just to get your brain and fingers limbered up...

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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