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Writing Quotes

"A writer should be as objective as a chemist."

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it."

"All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."

"If you don't like someone's story, write your own "

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

"Literature is fire"

"You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot."

"In order to write about life first you must live it"

"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be"

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes"

"I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me"

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads"

"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."

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