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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Editing and Editors
Marianne Moore

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
John Mortimer

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Writers and Writing
Iris Murdoch

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Writers and Writing
V. S. Naipaul

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Writers and Writing
Friedrich Nietzsche

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A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Writers and Writing
Gregory Nunn

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Excellence
Flannery O'Connor

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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Politicians and Politics
George Orwell

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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal

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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Writers and Writing
Octavio Paz

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Writers and Writing
Harold Pinter

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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope

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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Writers and Writing
Ezra Pound

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The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
Letters
Proverb

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Advice
Proverb

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
Enjoyment
Francis Quarles

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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Talent
Jules Renard

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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature
Jules Renard

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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Writers and Writing
Anne Rice

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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Writers and Writing
Jean Paul Richter

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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
Editing and Editors
Harold Wallace Ross

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun