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- "The wastebasket is a writer''s best friend."
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer Write Quotes
- "The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."
By: Mark Twain Write Quotes
- "I''m not a very good writer, but I''m an excellent rewriter."
By: James Michener Write Quotes
- "Substitute "damn" every time you''re inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
By: Mark Twain Write Quotes
- "Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn''t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say."
By: Sharon O'Brien Write Quotes
- "The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium."
By: Norbet Platt Write Quotes
- "What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
By: Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931 Write Quotes
- "If there''s a book you really want to read, but it hasn''t been written yet, then you must write it."
By: Toni Morrison Write Quotes
- "I try to leave out the parts that people skip."
By: Elmore Leonard Write Quotes
- "I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."
By: Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977 Write Quotes
- "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
By: Sylvia Plath Write Quotes
- "A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
By: Charles Peguy Write Quotes
- "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
By: E.L. Doctorow Write Quotes
- "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
By: Anaïs Nin Write Quotes
- "So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it."
By: Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 Write Quotes
- "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
By: Ray Bradbury Write Quotes

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