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“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.”
Elie Wiesel quotes (Romanian born American Writer. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. b.1928)
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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
James A. Michener quotes (U.S. novelist and short-story writer, 1907?-1997)
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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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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)
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“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.”
Rumer Godden quotes
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“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
Ralph Ellison quotes
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“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”
Terry Southern quotes
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“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
french_horn_quee Jorge Luis Borges quotes (Argentinian Poet and Essayist, 1899-1986)
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“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it”
Octavia Butler quotes
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“I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others”
Moliere quotes (French Actor, Playwright and Writer the greatest of all writers of French comedy, 1622-1673)
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“I don't like to write, but I love to have written”
Michael Kanin quotes
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