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January 31st, 2011I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
--Elmore Leonard January 30th, 2011A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
--Charles Peguy January 29th, 2011Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
--E.L. Doctorow January 28th, 2011The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
--Anaïs Nin January 27th, 2011So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
--Harold Acton January 26th, 2011You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
--Ray Bradbury January 25th, 2011There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
--Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith January 24th, 2011A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
--Samuel Johnson January 23rd, 2011If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
--Don Marquis January 22nd, 2011A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
--Tom Bissell January 21st, 2011A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
--Mignon McLaughlin January 20th, 2011Easy reading is damn hard writing.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne January 19th, 2011If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
--Stephen King January 18th, 2011I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
--Oscar Wilde January 17th, 2011The best style is the style you don't notice.
--Somerset Maugham January 16, 2011Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
--William Ralph Inge January 15th, 2011In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson January 14th, 2011Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
--Jane Yolen January 13th, 2011We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
--Ray Bradbury January 12th, 2011Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
--E. L. Doctorow January 11th, 2011I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
--James Michener January 10th, 2011You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
--Jack London January 9th, 2011Fantasy's hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
--Lloyd Alexander January 8th, 2011All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
--Rosemary Wells January 7th, 2011You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
--Maxim Gorky January 6th, 2011I write for the same reason I breathe- because if I didn't, I would die.
--Isaac Asimov January 5th, 2011Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein January 4th, 2011You see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream of things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
--George Bernard Shaw January 3rd, 2011To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
--Truman Capote January 2nd, 2011A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
--Henry Ward Beecher January 1st, 2011God is love, but get it in writing.
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