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• Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

  May Sarton

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• Writing is prayer.

  Franz Kafka

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• Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

  Isabel Allende

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• Fiction that adds up, that suggests a “logical consistency,” or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

  Joyce Carol Oates

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• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

  Mark Twain

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• Get black on white.

  Guy de Maupassant

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• How can you write if you can’t cry?

  Ring Lardner

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• It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

  Sholem Asch

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• This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The pen is mightier than the sword.

  Edward Bulwer Lytton

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• Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

  Mel Brooks

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• If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

  William Faulkner

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• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

  Aldous Huxley

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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  Rita Mae Brown

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• I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

  Phil Mickelson

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• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  T. S. Eliot

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

  Isaac Asimov

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• I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

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• The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

  Albert Camus

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