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Ray Bradbury quote: "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things,..."
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. Ray Bradbury
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. J. R. R. Tolkien
James M. Cain quote: "You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is..."
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war. Terry Goodkind
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing."
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. Marina Tsvetaeva
I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein Oscar Hammerstein II
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. John Steinbeck
Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Charles Bukowski quote: "The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed..."
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. Charles Bukowski
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. Roger Zelazny
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. P. G. Wodehouse
William Gass quote: "It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and..."
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word William Gass
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. Joseph Campbell
Ted Hughes quote: "What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller..."
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Ted Hughes
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life. Joyce Carol Oates

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