Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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• Wisdom

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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• Writing

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

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• Humor

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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Never put off writing until you are better at it.

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

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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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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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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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• Writing

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

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