Writing Quotes

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"Easy writing is damned hard reading." Ernest Hemingway

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"There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it." - Morley Callaghan

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"Read those writers to whom you admire or would most like to emulate." -Gene Perret

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"Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad." - Stephen King

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"To a beginner, the advise would be to think straight and write simply. To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later." - Brander Matthews

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"The more interested you are in what you're writing, the more interested your reader will be." - Scott Ederstein

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

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"The best writing is rewriting." - E.B. White

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"Audition your words. Good for better. Don't settle for 'red' when 'crimson' is the word you want." - Judy Reeves

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"For the writer time is the most precious possession." - Sophy Burnham

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"You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. If he or she is not disciplined, no sympathetic magic will help." - Bernard Malamud