In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
William Faulkner
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
William Goldman
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H. Gass
Like madness is the glory of this life.
William Shakespeare
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
Woody Allen
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...
Yasunari Kawabata
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
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