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“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.”

“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.”

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Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

Inspirational Writing Action Tongue Checks Cash

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin