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Quote by Cecil Day-Lewis

“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”

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Cecil Day-Lewis, a British poet, was born on April 27, 1904, and died on May 22, 1972. His poetry, deeply influenced by both Romanticism and Modernism, is renowned for its profound emotion and exquisite technique. more

“Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.”

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Author:Stanley Kunitz

“My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.”

Writing Process Writing Process Filling Rewriting Filling In

Author:Joan Didion

“When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter-another one will, and it'll probably be better. And I don't mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it-and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better.”

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Book:What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

“Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.”

Giving Writing Ideas Use Ability Technology Machines Opening Spots New Ideas Sophisticated Profitable Fruition

Author:Tom Crabtree

“I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.”

Way Writing

Book:An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry

Source: An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry

“Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.”

Knows Writing Persons Real Sometimes Helping Found Audience Reader Picks Real Person

Author:John Steinbeck

“Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.”

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Author:Kit Reed

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