A pencil is one of the best eyes. . . .
Facts are stupid things until brought into connection.

—Louis Agassiz

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Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it—and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.

―Tara Moss

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you.

―Neil Gaiman

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Learning to write is learning to think.
You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

—S. I. Hayakawa

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Show up. Show up in front of the computer or the typewriter. And if I show up long enough—it happens.

—Isabel Allende

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I have advice for people who want to write.
I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500.
There are three things that are important:

First,
if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

    And second,
you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write.

   The third thing
is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour—write, write, write.

   ―Madeleine L’Engle

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