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  • "The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
    By: Elias Canetti
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  • "Writing is a struggle against silence."
    By: Carlos Fuentes
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  • "An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts."
    By: Juvenal, Satires
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  • "I''d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer."
    By: Jack Smith
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  • "If I don''t write to empty my mind, I go mad."
    By: Lord ron
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  • "Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."
    By: Sholem Asch
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  • "When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don''t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint."
    By: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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  • "I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
    By: Harold Ross
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  • "When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
    By: Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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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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  • "Every writer I know has trouble writing."
    By: Joseph Heller
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  • "When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man."
    By: Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
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  • "Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies...."
    By: Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks"
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  • "When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
    By: Samuel Butler
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  • "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
    By: Joan Baez
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  • "Everywhere I go I''m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don''t stifle enough of them. There''s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
    By: Flannery O'Connor
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