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• I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

  Justin Townes Earle

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• His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.

  Melissa Marr

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• My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

  Jim Lehrer

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• Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

  Jonathan Lethem

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• I’d excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

  Jonathan Lethem

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• My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

  Joyce Maynard

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• Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

  Judith Krantz

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• I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

  Judith Rossner

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• When I was writing ‘Withnail,’ I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

  Bruce Robinson

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• As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

  Shannon Hale

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• Writing is more about discovery than invention.

  Diane Setterfield

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• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  A. A. Milne

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• All writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.

  William Carlos Williams

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• Someone’s writing down your mistakes, someone’s documenting your downfall.

  Nicole Blackman

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• Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

  Kami Garcia

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• If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown ‘girl’ would probably be transformed into a ‘woman’.

  Anne Fadiman

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  Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

  Mark Twain

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• When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.

  Theodora Goss

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• Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn’t.

  C.B. Smith

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