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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."
  By: ^ Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
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• "Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
  By: ^ C. S. Lewis
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• "Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
  By: ^ C. S. Lewis
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• "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window."
  By: ^ Burton Rascoe
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• "...the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person."
  By: ^ Brenda Ueland
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• "I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
  By: ^ Brenda Ueland
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• "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."
  By: ^ Baltasar Gracián
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• "The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline."
  By: ^ Ayelet Waldman
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• "You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke."
  By: ^ Arthur Polotnik
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• "At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then--and only then--it is handed to you."
  By: ^ Annie Dillard The Writing Life
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• "Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside of me--these characters--know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type."
  By: ^ Anne Lamott
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• "What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
  By: ^ André Gide
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• "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
  By: ^ Anais Nin The New Woman The White Blackbird
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• "In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself; to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax."
  By: ^ Alfred Kazin
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• "True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
  By: ^ Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
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• "No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other."
  By: ^ Alexander Pope in Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His Time by Spence
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