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Frank Scozzari is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His award-winning short stories have been widely anthologized and featured in literary theater.

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. —Stephen King—
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. —Stephen King—
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You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. —Jim Carrey—
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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. —Stephen King—
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Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul. —Charlie Chaplin—
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I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that. —David Bowie—
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. —Stephen King—
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I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that. —David Bowie—
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You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. —Robin Williams—
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. —Stephen Fry—
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. —Arthur Miller—
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You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. —Robin Williams—
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There is no friend as loyal as a book. —Ernest Hemingway—
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. —George Orwell—
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Go a little out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting. —David Bowie—
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I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. —Anne Frank—
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The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one. —James Baldwin—
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You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. —Robin Williams—
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. —Arthur Miller—
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The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one. —James Baldwin—
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. —Mark Twain—
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed. —William Shakespeare—
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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. —Rod Serling—
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The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. —Sylvia Plath—
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. —Sylvia Plath—
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. —Sylvia Plath—
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When I die I’ll know I’ve gone to heaven if I wake up in a used book store.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed. —William Shakespeare—
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I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that. —David Bowie—
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Agatha Christie—
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The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. —Sylvia Plath—
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I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. —Anne Frank—
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You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. —Robin Williams—
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. —Sylvia Plath—
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Write hard and clear about what hurts. —Ernest Hemingway—
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Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. Just do it and the confidence will follow. —Carrie Fisher—
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. —Steven King—
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When I die I’ll know I’ve gone to heaven if I wake up in a used book store.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. —Stephen King—
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. —Iris Murdoch—
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You are what you settle for. —Janis Joplin—
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. —Pablo Picasso—
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Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory. —Jack London—
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. —Steve Martin—
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I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. —David Bowie—
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. —Charlie Chaplin—
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If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. —David Bowie—
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. —Erica Jong—
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed. —William Shakespeare—
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. —Charlie Chaplin—
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Go a little out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting. —David Bowie—
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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. —Stephen King—
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. —Erica Jong—
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. —Doris Lessing—
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Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. —James Baldwin—
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. —Louis L'Amour—
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. —Ray Bradbury—
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Don't be a writer. Be writing. —William Faulkner—
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. —John Steinbeck—
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. —Dorothy Parker—
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. —Steve Martin—
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the shit that weighs you down. —Toni Morrison—
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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. —Kurt Vonnegut—
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I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. —Anne Frank—
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You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. —Robin Williams—
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. —George RR Martin—
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway—
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I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. —Anne Frank—
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. —Mark Twain—
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. —Steven King—
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Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance. —James Baldwin—
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. —John Steinbeck—
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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. —William Faulkner—
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. —Bob Marley—
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Not all those who wander are lost. —J.R.R. Tolkien—
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. —E. B. White—
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When I die I’ll know I’ve gone to heaven if I wake up in a used book store. http://t.co/rYxJzUbOsf
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If your book doesn't keep you up nights writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. —James A. Michener—
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When all else fails write what your heart tells you. —Mark Twain—
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. —Carrie Fisher—
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This is the extraordinary thing about #creativity : If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious. —John Cleese—
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Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory. —Jack London—
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail. —Ernest Hemingway—
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. —Steve Martin—
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. —Stephen King—
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Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better. —Anne Lamott—
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I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. —David Bowie—
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We all have time machines, don't we, those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward are dreams. —H.G. Wells—
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you. —Billy Wilder—
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There is no friend as loyal as a book. —Ernest Hemingway—
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I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied ... —Ernest Hemingway—
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. —F. Scott Fitzgerald—
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You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. —Jim Carrey—
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Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. —Lawrence Kasdan—
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. —Stephen King—
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. —Louis L'Amour—
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. —Mark Twain—
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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. —Frank Herbert—
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. —Arthur Miller—
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