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• "One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment."
  By: Hart Crane
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• "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
  By: George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)
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• "I do not like to write - I like to have written."
  By: Gloria Steinem
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• "There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft."
  By: Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 21 September 1957
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• "The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone''s neurosis, and we''d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads."
  By: William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
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• "An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."
  By: Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802
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• "Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
  By: Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791
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• "Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals."
  By: Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927
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• "i never think at all when i write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well"
  By: Don Marquis, Archy's Life of Mehitabel, 1933
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• "The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax."
  By: Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963
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• "Life can''t ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer''s lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant."
  By: Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
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• "The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
  By: André Gide, Journals, 1894
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• "You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world."
  By: G.K. Chesterton
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• "Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all."
  By: Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927
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• "The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
  By: Ray Bradbury
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• "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
  By: Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895
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