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Quote by Ernest Gaines

“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”

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Ernest Gaines is an American author known for his profound insights into racial and social issues. His works often set in the black community of Louisiana, explore themes of racial relations, poverty, and education. more

“When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.”

World Writing May Seems Difficult Simple Talent Empty Publishing Resisting Cathedrals Warehouse Citadels

Author:Alan Garner

“I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.”

Writing Poor Habit Relation Editors Absent

Book:Conversations with William H. Gass

Source: Conversations with William H. Gass

“A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.”

Writing Persons Ideas Whole Character Artist Passion Voice Lines Style Wit Rhythm Strokes Brushes Whole Person Writing Voice Thumbprints Writer's Voice

Author:Patricia Lee Gauch

“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”

Should Writing Doe Lines Millions Reader

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.”

Writing Speak Waiting Hungry

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.”

Writing Difficult Tasks Worthy Lists Publishers Publish Select Wheat Daunting Tasks

Book:The Bestseller

Source: The Bestseller

“One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.”

Writing Liberty Particular Impressive

Author:Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman

“Quitters don't win and winners don't quit.”

Writing Winning Quitting Winner Quitter

Author:Elliott Gould

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