Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

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Never put off writing until you are better at it.

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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If a story is in you, it has to come out.

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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

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