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• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle."
  By: John Cheever
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• "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make."
  By: Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
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• "I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
  By: Peter De Vries
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• "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
  By: Isaac Asimov
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• "Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies."
  By: Emme Woodhull-Bäche
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• "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
  By: Anton Chekhov
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• "Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
  By: Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938
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• "The wastebasket is a writer's best friend."
  By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• "Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say."
  By: Sharon O'Brien
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• "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
  By: Toni Morrison
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• "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
  By: Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
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• "I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog."
  By: D.H. Lawrence
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• "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
  By: Ring Lardner
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• "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
  By: Robert Heinlein
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• "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
  By: Stephen King
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