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| The only way to learn to write is to write. | Peggy Teeters | ||
| The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. | Leo Rosten (1908 - 1997) | ||
| The old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. | William Faulkner | ||
| The natural state of all writing is mediocrity. | Ira Glass | ||
| The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | ||
| The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings -- words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. | Stephen King | ||
| The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. | Gabriel Fielding | ||
| The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. | Mark Twain | ||
| The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. | Stephen Covey | ||
| The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first. | Pascal | ||
| The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. | Maya Angelou | ||
| The high note is not the only thing. | Placido Domingo | ||
| The greatest part of a writer“s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. | Samuel Johnson | ||
| The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. | Robert Charles Benchley | ||
| The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published. | John Farrar | ||
| The first draft of anything is shit. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| The easiest thing to do on earth is not write. | William Goldman | ||
| The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. | Mark Twain | ||
| The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. | Tom Clancy | ||
| The difference between fact and fiction is that fiction has to be believable. | Mark Twain | ||
| The cure for writers cramp is writer“s block. | Inigo de Leon | ||
| The characters can own villas and yachts, and armies can be deployed at no cost. A novelist is limited only by his or her imagination. Writing a novel is a heady experience, for a novelist creates worlds and plays God. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. | Gene Fowler | ||
| The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 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 | ||
| The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. | Mary Heaton Vorse | ||
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware | Henry Miller | ||
| The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential. | Jessamyn West | ||
| Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. | Stephen King | ||
| Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| Success is spelled W - O - R - K. | Robert Schuller | ||
| Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. | Mark Twain | ||
| Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. | Blaise Pascal | ||
| Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. | T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) | ||
| Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' -- which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. | Maya Angelou | ||
| Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written | Anon. | ||
| So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write. | Lurleen McDaniel | ||
| Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. | John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) | ||
| Rewriting ripens what you've written | Duane Alan Hahn | ||
| Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. | Pete Murphy | ||
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