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• Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

  John Gregory Dunne

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• Medicine and writing are natural companions.

  Kevin Patterson

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• It’s my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

  Elmore Leonard

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• Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

  Shannon Hale

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• Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

  Anthony Burgess

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• Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon mid race.

  Chris Baty

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• I write to believe in goodness.

  Red Haircrow

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• That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

  Raymond Carver

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• Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

  Ruth Park

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• Writers are born, not created.

  Tim Campbell

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• No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it.

  Karl Popper

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• I don’t write for a living. I live to write.

  Marwa Ayad

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• Writing is thinking on paper.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• Examine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that don’t serve any purpose.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

  William Knowlton Zinsser

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• All plots are cliche.

  Jincy Willett

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• That’s the hard work of writing. The imagining.

  Jincy Willett

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• Not writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

  Jincy Willett

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• There’s something intimidating, yet exciting about a blank page.

  Chris Stocking

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