Writing Quotes
These are some of the best 'Writing' quotations and sayings.
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A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
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Everything which I have created as a poet has had its origin in a frame of mind and a situation in life; I never wrote because I had, as they say, found a good subject.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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For myself I live, live intensely and am fed by life, and my value, whatever it be, is in my own kind of expression of that.
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I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and - like a kid with his toy trains, - except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things... I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again.
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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
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If I were authorized to address any word directly to our novelists, I should say: Do not trouble yourself about standards or ideals, but try to be faithful and natural.
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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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The artist (in literature) appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.
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The most poignantly personal autobiography of a biographer is the biography he has written of another man.
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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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The writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
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