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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
Writers and Writing
Richard Harding Davis

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Originality
De Chateaubriand

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham

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Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Writers and Writing
Patrick Dennis

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Writers are always selling somebody out.
Writers and Writing
Joan Didion

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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Books - Reading
Isaac Disraeli

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Writers and Writing
E. L. Doctorow

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Writers and Writing
J. P. Donleavy

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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Books - Classics
Carl Van Doren

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Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Writers and Writing
Carl Van Doren

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Motivation
Peter F. Drucker

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Letters
Lawrence Durrell

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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Truth
Meister Eckhart

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Decisions
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Editing and Editors
T. S. Eliot

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Writers and Writing
T. S. Eliot

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Arts and Artists
Havelock Ellis

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Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Writers and Writing
Lucy Ellman

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Choice
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you wish to be a writer; write!
Writers and Writing
Epictetus

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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Writers and Writing
William Faulkner

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