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To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.


James Dashner

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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
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KARA DIOGUARDI It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doi...
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CHRIS BOHJALIAN I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm discipl...
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DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and rew...
J. R. MOEHRINGER I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, ev...
FAITH HILL Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
HENRY MINTZBERG You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you fina...
CHARLIE PARKER I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single...
BETH REVIS Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a...
DEB CALETTI And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Playing all last year and working in practice this year, it has really given me the confidence to go...
BRIAN CARROLL We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing -...
ROBERT CORMIER You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
MALIK JACKSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
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NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, a...
TERENCE MCKENNA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents...
BRUCE VENTO The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not m...
ARTHUR SLADE If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
D. B. SWEENEY Not only will you learn your craft, but you get into the loop. Actors tell actors about roles coming...
LORI OPENDEN I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th...
WILLIAM FAULKNER As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's publishe...
DAVID BERGEN Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own...
ROBERT METCALFE If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her...
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BEN MARCUS I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your f...
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SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's...
RAY CHARLES I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write song...
BEN HOPKINS No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
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DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK You don't have time to meet. We practice every minute we can and then we send them back up the hill.
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RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If ...
YEHUDA BERG My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, t...
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DAVID HEARN Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much...
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GRETCHEN RUBIN If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 wor...
JAMES SCOTT BELL If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc...
AFROJACK work. play. passion.
JIM CLARK The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste...
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ELIZABETH MERIWETHER You've got to learn your address. If you don't know where you live, how do we get to your house?
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JAMES DASHNER When someone is close by, you just know it.
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"The Glue?"
"Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that...
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JAMES DASHNER I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.
JAMES DASHNER The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
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JAMES DASHNER Great we're bloody inspired
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JAMES DASHNER We will survive. I promise.
JAMES DASHNER I'm so sorry," he whispered to her, knowing she couldn't hear. "I'm so sorry."
Her mouth moved,...
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JAMES DASHNER She means the world to me, and nothing will ever change that.
JAMES DASHNER Don't give up!
JAMES DASHNER Someday we'll be bigger.
JAMES DASHNER Teresa stood up, surprising Thomas with her confidence.
“Guess he forgot to tell the little p...
JAMES DASHNER It was her.
It was Teresa.
JAMES DASHNER And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusi...
JAMES DASHNER Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?
JAMES DASHNER Please Tommy. Please.
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JAMES DASHNER I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.
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"You met our new friend?" Miho...
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JAMES DASHNER False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
JAMES DASHNER ...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.
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JAMES DASHNER Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured.
"Wonder what?"
"If being alive matters. If being dea...
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“Huh?”
“Kill someone three times.”
“I’...
JAMES DASHNER He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, tu...
JAMES DASHNER Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replie...
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JAMES DASHNER Hunger.
It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.
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JAMES DASHNER You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
JAMES DASHNER Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.
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JAMES DASHNER Tonight, they’d make their stand, once and for all.
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JAMES DASHNER She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.
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They needed more clues ab...
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JAMES DASHNER Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?
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JAMES DASHNER Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
JAMES DASHNER You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.
JAMES DASHNER Holy crap, I’m scared.”

“Holy crap, you’re human. You should be scared.
JAMES DASHNER Good that.
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JAMES DASHNER Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.
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JAMES DASHNER You're Subject A-two," Newt answered. Then he lowered his eyes
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Newt ...
JAMES DASHNER You da boss
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JAMES DASHNER You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!” - Minho (The Maze Runner)
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Her mouth moved,...
JAMES DASHNER Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
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JAMES DASHNER Shouldn't someone give a pep talk," Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
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JAMES DASHNER In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that yo...
JAMES DASHNER Zart the fart, you start.
JAMES DASHNER Being holed up in here does wonders for making the brain do what it was made for.
JAMES DASHNER [Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy o...
JAMES DASHNER This isn't a slumber party.
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BILL DASHNER Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was v...
BILL DASHNER There are charters all over the place and none in Racine.
DAN DASHNER (They) did a fantastic job of restoring it.
DAN DASHNER And people can design their own outings.
DAN DASHNER Great. We're all bloody inspired.
NEWT THE MAZE RUNNER BY JAMES DASHNER Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
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JAMES BLUNT National honor is the national property of the highest value.
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KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
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KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
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KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
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KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
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KEVIN JAMES I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
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WILLIAM JAMES Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
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JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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JAMES AVERY I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN