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"302 Writing Quotes

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Think Mentor Someone Learn
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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Writing Easy Page Technical
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The desire to write grows with writing.

Desire Write Grows
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Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Hard work A writer Become one Stop you
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Understand Writer's Ignorance
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The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

Writing process Is pretty Solitary experience
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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do

Writing Playground Artistic Fun
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

Day Write Taste Ashes
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Is impossible Discourage Real writers
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A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Scientist Hate writing Love being The lab
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Restrictions Easier Write
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Writing is a form of mischief.

Writing Form Mischief
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writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.

Writing Developing Expose Life story
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Writer's Fancy term Whiners Excuse
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

Conscious Mind Editor Writer
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It is only through writing that I become myself

Only Writing Become Myself
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Only Impeccable Writers Never
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Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Don't Write Can't Understood
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Thoughts Man Know Write
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Powers Good Author Make
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Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Writing Creative art Word Character
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Quality Great story Illustrates Human condition
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

I Going Write Sake
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band

Writing Exciting Moments Life
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There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.

Writing Believable Story Truth
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Fundamental Statement Morality Writing
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself

People Grows Writing Process
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work

Pay Criticism Men Written
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Good writers Language Efficient Clear
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If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read

You Anything Worthy Write
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I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Writing Life Laugh Succeeding
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Write Something Suicide Note
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Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Write Advice Think Imagine
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A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Writer Truth Journalist
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Writing Problems How Narrative
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Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Wordly Love Heart Write
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Write Symphony Construct World
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Writing is a delicious agony.

Writing Delicious Agony
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done

Writing Poem Think World
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I Writer Talker
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Writer Education School Inspired
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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I could not think without writing.

I Think Writing
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Great Talent Act Writing
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent

Fiction Autobiographical Author Talent
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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Attracted Writing Stories Reality
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Writers Dreamers Talk
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