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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”

William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)

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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”

Sidonie Gabrielle quotes

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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”

Jessamyn West quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)

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“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 quotes (American Journalist and Novelist, b.1934)

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“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 quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)

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“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 quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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“Don't get it right, just get it written”

James Thurber quotes (American Writer, 1894-1961)

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“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes (American Writer, 1897-1973)

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“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”

Dudley Clendinen quotes

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“Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”

Dean Koontz quotes (American author)

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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

Gene Fowler quotes (American journalist and biographer, 1890-1960)

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