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“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”

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Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.”

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Book:Little Wilson and Big God

Source: Little Wilson and Big God

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

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Author:Niyi Osundare

“I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.”

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Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

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Author:Richard Miller

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

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Author:Joan Didion

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.”

“Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.”

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Author:Pete Hamill

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.”

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Book:Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

Source: Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.”

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.”

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Book:Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Read, read read. Read everything.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“Exercise the writing muscle every day.”

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Author:Jane Yolen

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.”

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Book:The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

“And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”

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Book:The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

Source: The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists

“Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.”

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Author:Arthur Bryant

“Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”

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Author:J. B. Priestley

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

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