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• "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
  By: Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895
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• "Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you''re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff''s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
  By: Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
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• "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
  By: Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947
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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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• "Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially."
  By: A. Bronson Alcott
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• "Loafing is the most productive part of a writer''s life."
  By: James Norman Hall
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• "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
  By: Jean Luc Godard
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• "No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."
  By: Russell Lynes
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• "What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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• "A man will turn over half a library to make one book."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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• "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one''s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one''s pen."
  By: Leo Tolstoy
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• "There''s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that''s a writer sitting down to write."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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• "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
  By: Gustave Flaubert
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• "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
  By: Franz Kafka
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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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• "Let''s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks."
  By: Peter S. Prescott
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