To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

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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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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Writing is the mirror to an invisible world.

Carl Jung

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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

E.B. White

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

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Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

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Aristotle

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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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One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

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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 an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

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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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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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Writing is thinking on paper.

William Zinsser

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

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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.

Don DeLillo

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

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Writing is the supreme solace.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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