| "Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien |
| "writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen |
| "A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers |
| "writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly |
| "Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk |
| "Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton |
| "Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin |
| "Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking." »Horace |
| "writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White |
| "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann |
| "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg |
| "Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein |
| "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." »Hermann Hesse |
| "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly |
| "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." »Truman Capote |
| "Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." »Jimmy Breslin |
| "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher |
| "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." »Joan Baez |
| "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." »Robert Benchley |
| "Never be entirely idle but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them." »Isabel Colegate |
| "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." »Booker T. Washington |
| "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing." »S. G. Tallentyre |
| "Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility." »Katherine Paterson |
| "I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." »Etty Hillesum |
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