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1. "Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience." ~ Chuck Wendig
2. "Write as much as you can.As fast as you can.Finish your shit.Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck." ~ Chuck Wendig
3. "Creativity needs time. We're all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation." ~ Chuck Wendig
4. "Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up to standing. This takes time. Stories need to find the right home, the right audience. Stick with it. Quitting is for sad pandas." ~ Chuck Wendig
5. "We're all the heroes of our own tales. Even villains." ~ Chuck Wendig
6. "Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become." ~ Chuck Wendig
7. "Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick." ~ Chuck Wendig
8. "Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?" ~ Chuck Wendig
9. "Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn't a hot dog eating contest. You're not being judged on how much you write but rather, how well you do it. Sure, there's a balance — you have to be generative, have to be swimming forward lest you sink like a stone and find remora fish mating inside your rectum. But generation and creativity should not come at the cost of quality. Give your stories and your career the time and patience it needs." ~ Chuck Wendig
10. "She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony." ~ Chuck Wendig
11. "Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage." ~ Chuck Wendig
12. "You grab the core essence of a true problem and swaddle it in the mad glittery ribbons of fantasy — and therein you find glorious new permutations of conflict. Reality expressed in mind-boggling ways. Reach for fantasy. Find the reality." ~ Chuck Wendig
13. "It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time she hears it." ~ Chuck Wendig
14. "A lady should be respectful," is all he manages through gritted teeth. He pitches the towel in the corner.Miriam snorts. "That's me. My fair fuckin' lady." ~ Chuck Wendig
15. "What...what are you?" she asked."I'm Batman." ~ Chuck Wendig
16. "He wasn't supposed to feel this way. He didn't even want to feel the way he did for the dog, for Creampuff--GoddamnitGoddamnit"Goddamnit!" he snarled. Ginger blinked. Incredulous he explained: "They took my dog, Ginger. They stole my terrier." He popped each of his knuckles. "They didn't just abandon me after I got them through, after I kept them alive. They rubbed salt on my wound while they pissed in my eyes. I can't believe they stole my dog."Coburn grabbed the kid by his all too-clean shirt and shook him like a baby. "Listen. You're going to drive me to go get Creampuff, my terrier..." ~ Chuck Wendig
17. "Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down." ~ Chuck Wendig
18. "Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story" ~ Chuck Wendig
19. "Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue." ~ Chuck Wendig
20. "Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better. This is a powerful revelation, like the burning UFO wheel seen by the prophet Ezekiel, or like the McRib sandwich shaped like the Virgin Mary seen by the prophet Steve Jenkins. Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?" ~ Chuck Wendig
21. "the burg of Maker's Bell lives on that line between rural and suburban, between farmland and white picket fences" ~ Chuck Wendig
22. "Coffee Fuck you, coffee IS TOO a virtue. Do not deny me this. Do not dare!" ~ Chuck Wendig
23. "Do that and the carbs will only drag you down, make you mentally foggy. Stick with protein while writing. By the way, bacon is protein. Just saying." ~ Chuck Wendig
24. "The shelves had been stripped bare and battered to Hell, as if some super-important Christmas toy release had come and gone and an army of Super-Moms had ripped through the store, buying everything up like an all-consuming void. Didn't hurt that many of the shelves were lined with piles of bones both animal and human." ~ Chuck Wendig
25. "And oh, could he smell them. It wasn't just the stench of body sweat. It was the rancid odor of human meat. With every breath they gave it off. Blood under their tongue. Long pork between their teeth. Eau de cannibal." ~ Chuck Wendig
26. "Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window." ~ Chuck Wendig

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