Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming in booze, but the hours you write should be sober and with purpose.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay
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Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
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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.
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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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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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To write simply is as difficult as to be good
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying
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He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose
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