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"Writing is the mirror to an invisible world."



Carl Jung



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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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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.

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

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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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.

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Write it badly. Write it now. Edit it later.

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

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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff
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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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Writing is both mask and unveiling.

E.B. White
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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.

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Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes
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Writing is the only way to talk without being interrupted.

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

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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King
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Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Steven Berkoff
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett
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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 purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

W. Somerset Maugham
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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

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

Agatha Christie
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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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth
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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 easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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

David Hare
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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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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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Voltaire
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The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

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

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

Steve Jobs
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