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" Great writing connects emotionally. It lays obstacles and shows you the way over. It excites you, and incites you. It’s a skill, and an art form. It requires talent, experience, audacity, grit, and creativity. Even more, it requires empathy — the ability to feel and understand what someone else is feeling and experiencing. From habit to impulse and dedication to craving, if you can understand it, you can predict it. If you can predict it, you can provoke it. If you can make your readers feel something, they don’t need to think about anything, and that’s magical. "
― James Dowd , Write Dumb: Writing Better By Thinking Less
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" You may say who am I to be a Writer, to put my heart and soul onto the page, to write my name on things, to have the gall to think I could stand alone with my words, to take chances, to try? I say, who the hell are you not to? This is a gift we all possess, an art we can practice without advanced instruction, a form of communication that can not only reach masses but also exist forever in time. Who are you to deny such a gift? You can write, and no one else is stopping you from being a Writer, only yourself. So don’t allow yourself to stand in the way of something so fulfilling. "
― James Dowd , Write Dumb: Writing Better By Thinking Less
