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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson
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Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert Cormier
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The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
Stephen King
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. White
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Writing is a struggle against silence.
Carlos Fuentes
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Mark Twain
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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation—an investigation of my own life. It has nothing to do with 'I've got to get another play.'
Neil Simon
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anaïs Nin
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff
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Write it badly. Write it now. Edit it later.
Unknown
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
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Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.
Cec Murphy
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Writing is a way of life.
Sylvia Plath
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
Writing
Writing is the mirror to an invisible world.
Carl Jung
Writing
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
Natalie Goldberg
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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
Meg Cabot
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Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
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Writing is the painting of the voice.
Voltaire
Writing
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
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You can make anything by writing.
C.S. Lewis
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Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel Allende
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert Cormier
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
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Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To write means more than putting pretty words on a page; the act of writing is to share a part of your soul with the world.
Unknown
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You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
Joss Whedon
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Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel Allende
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
Terry Pratchett
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King
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