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"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
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"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
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"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
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"writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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"Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." »Ivana Trump
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin
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"Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg
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"Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw Lec
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"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin." »Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly
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"writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." »E.L. Doctorow
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"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking." »Horace
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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make." »Truman Capote
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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." »Jimmy Breslin
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"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 29, 2004
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"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
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"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." »Hermann Hesse
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"writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein
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