Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

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

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• Inspirational

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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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• Writing

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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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• Writing

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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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

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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• Writing

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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• Writing

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

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• Life