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“Writing is the only thing that,
when I do it,I don't feel I should be doing
anything else.”~Gloria Steinem
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the
least space.”~Orson Scott Card
“I write to correct life’s unfairness.”
~Verandah Porche
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
~Karl Kraus
“Memory believesbefore knowing remembers.”
~William Faulkner
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Inch by inch, the words surprised me.”
~W. Kennedy
“To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words
make.”~Truman Capote, 1967
“When I write, ideas
wander around in my mind looking for
something to do.”~S.E. Hinton
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
~Joseph Heller
“Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a
toddler.”~Barry Lane
“A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the
other one.”~Baltasar Gracian
“If there is a book you really want to read but you can’t find
it, sit down and write it.”
~Toni Morrison
On writing….“I try to leave out the parts that
people skip.”~Elmore Leonard
“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.”
~James Michener
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light
on broken glass.”~Anton Chekhov
“Putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought making us think more deeply even if our writing is thrown
away.”~Norbet Platt
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
~Mark Twain
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has
gone into its writing.”~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
“You write to communicate what’s burning inside you.
You edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
~Author Unknown