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Quote by Norman Cousins

“Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.”

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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. Is it a dead end, or have you located the real subject? You will know tomorrow, or this time next year.”

Knows Writing Years Real Ends Next Lines Path Subjects Tomorrow Picks Lays Woods Finding Yourself Territory Next Year Surgeons Dead Ends Miners New Territory Carver

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.”

Needs Writing Hands Moving Known Cases Hell Ready Research

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.”

Writing Doe Happens Life Is

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.”

Writing Humans Growing Effects Horns Polish Exquisite Right Words Misplaced

Book:The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Moments Lasts Poetry Reading Waiting Taken Reader Strikes Wounds Absurd Immortal Over It Lasting Touching Get Over

Author:Robert Frost

“In literature, you know only what you imagine”

Knows Writing Literature Imagine

Book:This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life

Source: This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

Writing May Matter Today Hell Tomorrow Writing Advice Good Writing Good Writers Short Writing

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.”

Writing Art Lost Waiting Listening Woods Hunters Stalking Unsure Lost In The Woods

Author:John Gardner

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