Writings Quotes (page 12)

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• writing
• words
• writers

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer! Ray Bradbury

• understanding
• writing
• chill

Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill and perhaps in time lead her to see herself as she was. Flannery O'Connor

• favorite
• success
• popular

Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, "We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. David McCullough

• writing
• words
• crossing

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. Mark Twain

• street
• little
• work

Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio to a classical music station, light a cigarette or a cigar, open the bottle. The typer did the rest. All I had to do was be there. The whole process allowed me to continue when life itself offered very little, when life itself was a horror show. There was always the typer to soothe me, to talk to me, to entertain me, to save my ass. Basically that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my... Charles Bukowski

• writing
• army
• words

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! Hilaire Belloc

• brainly
• reading books
• reading

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. Pat Conroy

• feeling
• thinking
• writing

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. Toni Morrison

• life
• dog
• writing

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. Gustave Flaubert

• magic
• water
• free life

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. Stephen King

• saying
• fun
• celebration

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors who say ‘Oh, my God, what word? Oh, Jesus Christ…’, you know. Now, to hell with that. It’s not work. If it’s work, stop and do something else. Ray Bradbury

• meditation
• green
• author

Write from Beyond what you know. From the authority of your senses." -author of Meditations in Green Steven Wright

• writing
• marketing
• new

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Willa Cather

• writing
• exercise
• long

Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Isabel Allende

• english
• writing
• wall

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. Joseph Conrad