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Writing Quotes (page 132)

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation. Ulysses S. Grant
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers..."
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. Barbara Kingsolver
Ray Bradbury quote: "I love to write. It's all I do."
I love to write. It's all I do. Ray Bradbury
There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to write, and the children to scold. Daphne du Maurier
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail..."
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? Sue Monk Kidd
I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained. John C. Hawkes
It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication; after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it... Thomas Paine
To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty... William Makepeace Thackeray
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. Ernest Hemingway
Charles Bukowski quote: "bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do..."
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it Charles Bukowski
Taylor Swift quote: "I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to..."
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane. Taylor Swift
When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say. Edward Abbey
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music. Hunter S. Thompson
One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see. Paulo Coelho
Cynthia Ozick quote: "If we had to say what writing is, we would describe it..."
If we had to say what writing is, we would describe it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick

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