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.

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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. - Wally Amos

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.- Henry David Thoreau

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

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If you own this story you get to write the ending. — Brené Brown

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It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. - Jack Kerouac

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking – William B. Sprague

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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