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Writing Quotes

"Don't talk about it; write."

"Writing is a struggle against silence."

"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men), that wise men only should be able to commend him."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"You write your own narrative"

"You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."

"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."

"A writer’s life is an experiment in biography"

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"

"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks "

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them."

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"

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