962 Quotes About Writing-life
- Author Ernest Hemingway
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Upon reading, great stories by Great Spirits, the glorious inspiration penetrated our soul; we can’t help but to shed tears. It was a soul soothing and a deep spiritual awaken.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
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- Author T.K. Naliaka
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Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
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- Author Stephen J. Cannell
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I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
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- Author C. JoyBell C.
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I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.
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- Author David Nicol
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What I don't get about "traditional publishing" is that an author creates a work that they think is good enough to be published. They then have to spend their valuable time begging others to exploit them to point where they end up with a 5% stake in THEIR business. What kind of a screwed of business model is that?
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- Author Anthony Trollope
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I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works
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