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#1

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

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#2

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
― Peter De Vries

tags: humor, writing

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#3

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#4

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#5

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#6

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, talking, writers

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#7

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#8

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: humor, writing

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#9

“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

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#10

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

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#11

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#12

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#13

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#14

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.  ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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#15

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#16

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: on-writing

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#17

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
― Truman Capote

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#18

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

tags: good, writing

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#19

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#20

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

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#21

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#22

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#23

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

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#24

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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#25

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

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#26

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

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#27

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#28

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion

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#29

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#30

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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