Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

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

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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

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If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

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Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

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10 Steps to Becoming a Better WriterWrite.Write more.Write even more.Write even more than that.Write when you don’t want to.Write when you do.Write when you have something to say.Write when you don’t.Write every day.Keep writing.

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I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

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A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

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I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

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