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Writing Quotes

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it."

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting."

"To hell with more. I need more dreams and more writing."

"With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion"

"Although every great writer will recognized as unique, the fact is that the art of literature is not just an individual voice but a relationship between writer and reader"

"I found that I had to find a way to protect myself because writing is a very vulnerable position."

"God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught "

"Love is the answer to everything It's the only reason to do anything If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it"

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard."

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"

"But writing is the act of trawling the shadows to find the heart shaped glare"

"A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book"

"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open "

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