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• "Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
  By: ^ Katherine Mansfield
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• "Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself."
  By: ^ Katherine Anne Porter On Writing The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter
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• "The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
  By: ^ Jules Renard, Diary, February 1895
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• "You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure of writing."
  By: ^ John Updike in Singular Encounters by Attallah
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• "I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head."
  By: ^ John Updike
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• "He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth."
  By: ^ John Ray
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• "A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."
  By: ^ John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
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• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle."
  By: ^ John Cheever
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• "Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life."
  By: ^ James Norman Hall
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• "I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
  By: ^ James Michener
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• "I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer."
  By: ^ Jack Smith
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• "At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves."
  By: ^ J. Michael Straczynski email 9/1/2000
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• "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them."
  By: ^ Isak Dinesen
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• "When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
  By: ^ Isaac Singer
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• "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper."
  By: ^ Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• "If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."
  By: ^ Isaac Asimov
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