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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

  Paulo Coelho

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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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• 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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• Writing starts with living.

  L.L. Barkat

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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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• 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 something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.

  John Green

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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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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can’t stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

   

  Paula Poundstone

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• I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

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• But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

  Peter Sotos

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• I’ve hung out in the writer’s room a few times, but the fact is we’ve got such a good writing staff, I don’t want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

  Patton Oswalt

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• Why my interest in writers? Well, I’m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it’s like to write. I’m interested in the creative process. I’m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

  Eric Brown

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