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Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn’t pay much, unless you’re very successful. It’s who we are.
– Lori Lesko

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  1. All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write. – Lori Lesko
  2. Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
  3. I don’t need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I’m there. – Lori Lesko
  4. I’m really just playing when I write. I feel like I’m a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls! – Lori Lesko
  5. Never judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their busted up shoes and haven’t had any money for medication for two weeks. – Lori Lesko
  6. I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that’s just fine with me – Lori Lesko
  7. I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that’s just fine with me – Lori Lesko
  8. It’s simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I’m an open book. – Lori Lesko
  9. I’m not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model. – Lori Lesko
  10. Can I possibly be a good writer if I’m not healed form the story I’m telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth? – Lori Lesko
  11. The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
  12. Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
  13. I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers -“ they just fade away. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  14. I don’t think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. – Paul Haggis
  15. Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there’s Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there’s YouTube. – Lisa Bedrick
  16. The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. – Warren Buffett
  17. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks. – GR Gopinath
  18. The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say -œno- to almost everything. – Warren Buffett
  19. Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
  20. Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories. – Daniel Keys Moran
  21. Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. – Jyoti Arora
  22. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You’ve got to determine what you are willing to pay for success. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
  23. [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles ens
  24. Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got. – Joe Abercrombie
  25. Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion
  26. I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything. – Emma Watson
  27. The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. – Austin Kleon
  28. Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. – Paul Valry
  29. I don’t paint what people expect, I paint what my heart yearns to express. – Nikki Rowe
  30. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
  31. I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. – Farida kahlo
  32. The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. – John Green
  33. You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully. – AD Posey
  34. Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
  35. Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
  36. The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons. – Carla H Krueger
  37. I am successful and I love the fact that being successful allows me to choose the ‘when’, ‘why’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of spending my time and energy. – Stephen Richards
  38. Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don’t know why, because they’re not being paid. – Jon Ronson
  39. Honestly…this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity. – Debora Dennis
  40. He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper’s fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears. – Erin McCarthy

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