Quotes on writing

Start writing thinking, wrestling words. — Jonathan Price, Put Writing

Jonathan Price Put That in Writing
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believed principle immediate survival important long-term survival. — Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: Selected Letters

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters Jack McClelland
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me, emotional payoff it’s about. want laugh cry read a story…or time — Stephen King

Stephen King
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moral instruction writer inserts deliberately not. least effective mor — Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card
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happy author world care reputation. — Washington Irving

Washington Irving
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a proportional relationship, inverse one, a writer’s estimation a work — Annie Dillard, Writing Life

Annie Dillard The Writing Life
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edit stories death. eventually run hide me. — Jeanne Voelker

Jeanne Voelker
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talented people write badly, generally one two reasons: blinded idea f — Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, Principles Screenwriting

Robert McKee Story: Substance Structure Style the Principles of Screenwriting
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a real way, one writes a story find happens it. written sits mind like — Samuel R. Delany, Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes Language Science Fiction

Samuel R. Delany The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
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didn’t writing, running street hurling grenades people’s faces. — Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell
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