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“Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Every book has its ancestors”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Those who write clearly have readers.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”

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Author:Natalie

“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”

“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”

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Author:Sholem Asch

“Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

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Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”

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Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

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Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

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Author:Joseph Heller

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”

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Author:Lillian Hellman

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.”

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Author:Richard Curtis

“Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.”

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Author:John Gardner

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

Source: A Gift of Wings

“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“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

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“I try to leave out the parts readers skip.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

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Book:Not That it Matters

Source: Not That it Matters

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

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Author:Moliere

“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

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