962 Quotes About Writing-life
- Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
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- Author Anne Tyler
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For me, writing was the only way out.
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- Author Joanie Schirm
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May the ink of your thoughts never dry.
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- Author John Irving
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And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.
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- Author Amaya Ellman
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If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
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- Author Michael Crichton
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Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...
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- Author John Gardner
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...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.
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- Author Joanie Schirm
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May my mind be clear and my heart pure.
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- Author Angeline Trevena
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Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.
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