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"Writers
should be
read, but
neither seen nor
heard."
[Daphne du Maurier] |
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"Writing
gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an
illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it."
[David Sedaris] |
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"The skill of writing is
to create a context in which other people can think."
[Edwin Schlossberg] |
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"You ask me why I do not
write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words,
they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring
results."
[Florence Nightingale] |
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"How vain it is to sit
down to write when you have not stood up to live."
[Henry David Thoreau ]
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"It
is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It
saves one having to bother anyone else with them."
[Isabel Colegate]
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"Write
something to suit
yourself and many
people will like it;
write something to
suit everybody and
scarcely anyone will
care for it."
[Jesse Stuart] |
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"I
write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what
I see and what it means. What I
want and what I
fear."
[Joan Didion] |
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"If any
man
wish to write
in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any
would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
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"The way you define
yourself as a writer is that you write every
time you have a free
minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."
[John Irving]
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