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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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• "Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls."
  By: ^ Hillary Carlip
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• "A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
  By: ^ Henry David Thoreau
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• "The secret of good writing is telling the truth."
  By: ^ Gordon Lish Dick Cavett television interview, Aug. 25, 1991
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• "One hates an author that's all author."
  By: ^ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Beppo
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• "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
  By: ^ Gene Fowler
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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."
  By: ^ Gene Fowler
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• "Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head."
  By: ^ From the movie Finding Forrester
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• "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
  By: ^ Flannery O'Connor
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• "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
  By: ^ Flannery O'Connor
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• "The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."
  By: ^ Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958
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• "Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, Would drain the oceans dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky."
  By: ^ F. M. Lehman The Love of God hymn
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• "A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head."
  By: ^ Ethel Wilson
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• "I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller."
  By: ^ Erskine Caldwell The Atlantic Monthly, July 1959
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• "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
  By: ^ Ernest Hemingway interview with George Plimpton in Writers at Work: Second Series
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• "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof crap detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
  By: ^ Ernest Hemingway
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