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  1. William Faulkner on the Importance of Reading

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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
    William Faulkner on the Importance of Reading Quotes We Like…
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  2. Haven’t done a #writingquote for a while but just came across this. Ursula K Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea, Introduction, wrt the first three Earthsea books. “None of them was closely plotted or planned before writing; in each of them much of the story came to me as I followed what I wrote where it inevitably led.”
    If it’s good enough for her, it’s good enough for me.
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