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• Writing and Painting are the same for me.

  Peter Malkin

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• Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

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  History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

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• Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

  Michel de Montaigne

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• Restrictions and writing shouldn’t mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.

  Lauren Hammond

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• Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters – to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Writing starts with living.

  L.L. Barkat

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• Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

  Marty Robbins

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• As for writing, that’s a cruel hard business. Unless you’re very lucky it’ll break your heart.

  Edward Abbey

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• Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

  Tim O'Brien

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• Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

  Nikki Giovanni

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• Writing is a mysterious activity.

  Susan Sontag

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• Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

  Paula Vogel

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• A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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• When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

  William Strunk, Jr.

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

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• I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes…

  Phil Dusenberry

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• The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.

  Ernest Hemingway

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