We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important … - Robert Cormier

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Robert Cormier

We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

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It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

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I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

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Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

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