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• With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  James Thurber

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• The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  Quentin Crisp

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• You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

  Ellen Goodman

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• Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

  Judy Collins

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• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

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• Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can’t stop.

  Judy Collins

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• Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

  Anne Sullivan

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• In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

  Will Rogers

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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. You may read selections to sensible women, — if young the better.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

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• One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

  Denise Levertov

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• The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

  Aldous Huxley

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• Write what you care about.

  Sara Paretsky

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• What’s better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  Manuel Puig

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• I allow my intuition to lead my path.

  Manuel Puig

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• Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand — a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods — or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

  Willa Sibert Cather

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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by … religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

  Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr.

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• In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

  Pearl S. Buck

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• But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
  Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  Lord Byron

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