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Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
-Gene Fowler

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
-Winston Churchill

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
-Franz Kafka

The adverb is not your friend.
-Stephen King

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly

I write to discover what I already know.
-Flannery O'Connor

Never be afraid to go too far, for the truth lies just beyond.
-Marcel Proust

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer - and if so, why?
-Bennett Cerf

Writers aren't exactly people.... they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: "House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."
-Neil Gaiman

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
-Winston Churchill

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God.
-Sidney Sheldon

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
-Rhys Alexander, Writing Gooder

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
-Barbara Kingsolver

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
-Ernest Hemingway

The worst thing you do write is better than the best thing you don't write.
-April Young Fritz

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
-Jack London

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
-E. L. Doctorow

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
-Truman Capote

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

(I became a writer) In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.
-Ferenc Molnar

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
-Jessamyn West

That which does not kill you, gives you more stuff to write about.
-John Warner

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
-Raymond Chandler

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