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"302 Writing Quotes

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

Writing Humbling Confidence
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As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Writers Excercise Mental Daily
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Writer Tricking Reader Dream
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The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Minute Words Eliminating Possibilities
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them

Write Experiences Mind About
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Kisses Letter Mingle Souls
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There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.

Reasons Write Create World
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The writer is more servant than master of his story.

Writer Servant Master Story
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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Way World Writer's block
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Subject Fiction Emotion Beliefs
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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

Limiting Imagination Writing Know
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel

Crazy Write Great novel
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Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.

Capable Writing Fiction Mind
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

Writer Invent License Read
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

Writer Deal Satisfied
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism Readers History Live
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything

Way Writer Behave Time
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read

Pleasures Writing Work Read
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Language Characters Effect Author
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Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Writing Blank piece Leaving
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

Ignorance Bliss Writer Think
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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.

Say Words Reader Plainest
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Give Critic Write Play
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Loneliness Writer Explain Inexplicable
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Writer Believe Dedication Literature
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Profession Book writing Stable Business
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Want Write Book Head
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Solve Mystery Enjoy Writing
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Writing Guided Dream
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral

Art Writing Opinions Ephemeral
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Problem Writing Casualty
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasure Emotion Writer Reader
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Writer Engineer Human soul
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Originality Writer Achieve Judgment
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Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Writing Human being Best
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Write Strength Characters Afraid
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Writers Touch Reality
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Believe Want Write
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Writing Breathing Learn Point
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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Good Writing Clears Psyche
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

Writing Studio Therapy
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Writing Incurable Possesses
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