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“The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.”
“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”
“From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola”
“Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.”
“I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”
“The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.”
“...'being published is not the same as being a real writer.”
“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”
“He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! ”
“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I...”
“St. Bernard said, Every word one writes smites the Devil.”
“My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.”
“If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.”
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and exp...”
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
“Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.”
“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”
“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got...”
“Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.”
“This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I ...”
