Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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The first draft of anything is shit.

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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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