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  • "The wastebasket is a writer''s best friend."
    By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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  • "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
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  • "I''m not a very good writer, but I''m an excellent rewriter."
    By: James Michener
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  • "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
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  • "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
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  • "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
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  • "What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
    By: Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931
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  • "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
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  • "I try to leave out the parts that people skip."
    By: Elmore Leonard
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  • "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
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  • "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
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  • "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
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  • "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
    By: E.L. Doctorow
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  • "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
    By: Anaïs Nin
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  • "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
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  • "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
    By: Ray Bradbury
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