Writing Quotes and Sayings

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One writes to make a home for one’s self, on paper, in time, in others’ minds.
Author: Alfred Kazin.

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Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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The pen is mightier than the sword.
Author: Bulwer-Lytton.

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Author: Truman Capote.

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Author: Cyril Connolly.

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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
Author: Fran Lebowitz.

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Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.
Author: Jeffrey A. Carver.

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Writers aren’t exactly people. They’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Author: Ray Bradbury.

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Author: Ben Franklin.

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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Author: Richard Harding Davis.

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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes.

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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
Author: Nadine Gordimer.

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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Author: Edwin Schlossberg.

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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Author: Andre Gide.

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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Author: Mark Twain.

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

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Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It’s like drinking water.
Author: Natalie Goldberg.

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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Author: Carol Burnett.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald.