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“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
~ William Faulkner

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
~ Winston S. Churchill

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
~Willa Cather

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
~ Coco Chanel

“The sound of the language is where it all begins. The test of a sentence is, Does it sound right?”
~ Ursula K. le Guin, Steering the Craft

“Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.”
~ Mary Oliver