"A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost." ~Henry James
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." ~Benjamin Franklin
"I never understand anything until I have written about it." ~Horace Walpole
"I write to make sense of my life." ~John Cheever
"Literature is simply the appropriate use of language." ~Evelyn Waugh
"No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing." ~E. B. White
"One hates an author that's all author." ~Lord Byron
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." ~Voltaire
"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair." ~Mary Heaton Vorse
"The closer you get, the greater the resistance." ~Natalie Goldberg
"The pen is the tongue of the mind." ~Cervantes
"There is magic in storytelling." ~Isabel Allende
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders." ~Walter Bagebot
"You can taste a word." ~Pearl Bailey
"You can't fake it; bad writing is a gift."--Richard Le Gallienne
"You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original." ~Horace
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"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it." ~Natalie Goldberg
"Trusting our creativity is new behavior for many of us. It may feel quite threatening initially, not only to us but also to our intimates. We may feel--and look--erratic. This erraticism is a normal part of getting unstuck, pulling free from the muck that has blocked us. It is important to remember that at first flush, going sane feels just like going crazy." ~Julia Cameron
"When writing for children, never write down to them, or underestimate their intelligence. Kids hate this." ~Scott Edelstein
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