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Fulton J. Sheen quote: "It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book..."
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. Fulton J. Sheen
William Gass quote: "I write because I hate. A lot. Hard."
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. William Gass
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean? hell, I know that. Stephen King
Charles Bukowski quote: "There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Charles Bukowski
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry. Julian Barnes
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. Alfred Kazin
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected.Finally, you just do it because you happen to... Natalie Goldberg
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog. Neil Gaiman
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) Nick Hornby
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of... Tennessee Williams
Kingsley Amis quote: "If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. W. Somerset Maugham
Ray Bradbury quote: "When they give you lined paper, write the other way."
When they give you lined paper, write the other way. Ray Bradbury
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. Kurt Vonnegut
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large..."
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Arthur Schopenhauer

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