Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

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A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

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Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

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• Motivational

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

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Write what should not be forgotten.

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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

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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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