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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." »Baltasar Gracian
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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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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl
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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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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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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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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading." »Lord Acton
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"Television has raised writing to a new low." »Samuel Goldwyn
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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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"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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"Vigorous writing is concise." »William Jr. Strunk
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior." »Christina Baldwin
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"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything." »Ivana Trump
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"writing is hard work and bad for the health." »E. B. White
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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 a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." »E.L. Doctorow
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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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"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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"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." »Edwin Schlossberg
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"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking." »Horace
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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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"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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"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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"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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