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Quotes about Writing

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Author: William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Author: Peter O'Toole (1932) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Author: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Author: Carol Shields (1935 - 2003) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What can I write for you to like me? All great words were already said before.Better I keep my silence. RightWords Translation

Author: Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a...

Author: Dinu Flamand (1947) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Author: Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Author: Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Write what you know is an excellent advice, but I’d also add: write only if you really cannot help it.

Author: Toma Pavel (1941) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 102 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Author: Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 43 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983) | Theme: Writing | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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