100+ Writing Quotes & Sayings

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

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

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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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The desire to write grows with writing.

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Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

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People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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