Rissa Gomes

A writer's corner

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Write with conviction. Pick a side and be bold. And if you’re wrong, admit it.

Jeff Goins

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If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

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Go inside where silence is. Stay there. Let words bubble up.

Maxime Lagacé

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Aldous Huxley

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

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We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Arianna Huffington

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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Wally Lamb

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead.

Warren Adler

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

Anne Lamott

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The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader’s heart.

Susan Sontag

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Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

John Maxwell

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The most important things are the hardest things to say.

Stephen King

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To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive.

William Zinsser