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#1

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19424 likes

#2

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20724 likes

#3

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

tags: humor-writing-craft

1163 likes

#4

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

1972 likes

#5

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: editing, on-writing

1611 likes

#6

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5987 likes

#7

“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]”
― Philip Pullman

tags: atheism, atheist, difficulty, possibility, sarcasm, spiritual, spirituality, understanding, writing

451 likes

#8

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. ”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

378 likes

#9

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing

814 likes

#10

“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

217 likes

#11

“I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.”
― Shannon Hale

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