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“I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret, either for publication or for a journal no one will see, or we write poems to be privately printed for the eyes of friends alone - this is not our choice. The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.”

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Author:Sophy Burnham

“The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.”

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Book:Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

“I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.”

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Author:O. Henry

“I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.”

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Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.”

Thinking Writing Secret

Author:David Mamet

“I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.”

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Author:Jeremy Irvine

“The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.”

World Writing Heart Secret

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.”

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Author:Robert McKee

“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.”

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Author:Johann Sebastian Bach

“The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it”

Writing Firsts Secret Hell

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.”

Feels Writing Feelings Secret Privacy Paramount True Feelings Darkest Secrets

Author:Jewel