Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

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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 a way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E.L. Doctorow

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

E.B. White

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

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Stephen King

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Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

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Writing is an escape from a world into which I often retreat.

Michael Crichton

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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

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Writing is thinking on paper.

William Zinsser

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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff

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Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

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The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

David Hare

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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

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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 an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

E.L. Doctorow

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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

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Writing is a way to make sense of the world, and to have a voice in it.

Roxane Gay

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Writing is a way to make sense of the world, and to have a voice in it.

Roxane Gay

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

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Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway

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Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

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

Louis L'Amour

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

Louis L'Amour

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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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You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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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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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

Voltaire

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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 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 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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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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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

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