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Writing Quotes

"It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change"

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

"A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice all at once"

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way "

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself"

"The muse visits during the writing."

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore"

"The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings"

"The fun of writing lies in the creation, not in the recognition."

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write"

"I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible."

"Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write."

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