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Author:Gloria Steinem

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”

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Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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

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Author:Peter De Vries

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

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Author:Herman Melville

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.”

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Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

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Author:Sidney Sheldon

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”

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Book:Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

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Book:Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

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Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”

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Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

Source: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”

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Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

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

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”

Source: Faulkner at West Point

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”

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Book:Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

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Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

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Author:Robert Southey

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

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