Quotes on writing

something us, storytellers listeners stories, demands redemptive act, — Flannery O’Connor, Mystery Manners: Occasional Prose

Flannery O'Connor Manners: Occasional Prose Mystery
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important piece advice would-be writers: write, try leave parts reader — Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules Writing

Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
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A writer begins a book. A reader finishes it. — Samuel Johnson, Works Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson Works of Samuel Johnson
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Research formalized curiosity. poking prying a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston
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Go broke. try much. Dispense safety nets. Take a deep breath begin tal — Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays Criticism 1981-1991

Criticism 1981-1991 Imaginary Homelands: Essays Salman Rushdie
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no taste poverty honest labor, writing recourse left me. — Hunter S. Thompson, Proud Highway: Saga a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

1955-1967 Hunter S. Thompson The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
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never asked Tolstoy write me, a little colored girl Lorain, Ohio. neve — Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison
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First forget inspiration. Habit dependable. Habit sustain inspired not — Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild Stories

Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler Other Stories
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Wasn’t writing a kind soaring, achievable form flight, fancy, imaginat — Ian McEwan, Atonement

Atonement Ian McEwan
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