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“The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.”

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“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”

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Author:Carmine Gallo

“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”

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Author:William Gibson

“If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.”

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Author:Jilly Cooper

“...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.”

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Author:Joanne Harris

“Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”

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Book:Growing up

Source: Growing up

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow

“Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”

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Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

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Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.”

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Author:W. P. Kinsella

“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”

“Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.”

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Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

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Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.”

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Author:Louis Untermeyer

“Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.”

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Author:Ken Wilber

“I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.”

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Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

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