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On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.


James Salter

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CHLOE THURLOW With great writing, there is great clarity.
DAVID COSTABILE Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
NICK TOSCHES Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
ALEXANDER CHEE Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
KATE MULGREW There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful dis...
ADAM GOPNIK The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acq...
BARRY EISLER Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
KATE MULGREW Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
VICTOR LAVALLE There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE But when have I ever needed saving?
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TRACY WARD When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking t...
BARRY MANN I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many pe...
OSCAR NUNEZ There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
IRVINE WELSH A divine great spirit put awe-words on my mind; my sacred-duty is the writing.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
ANDY SUMMERS Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating ...
HARLAN COBEN Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.
OLD ENGLISH WRITING I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which...
CAMERON CROWE a great teacher of writing.
STEPHEN AMBROSE The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki...
BARRY MANN I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an...
NEIL GAIMAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So...
SPIKE LEE A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
MARK TWAIN You can fix anything but a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better under...
STEPHEN KING Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving e...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of ...
ANNIE DILLARD The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. I...
SHATRUJEET NATH Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,...
E. L. DOCTOROW There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature...
KHALED HOSSEINI James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
STEPHEN RODRICK Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll ...
LAURA KASISCHKE Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.
AUBREY PLAZA Write what should not be forgotten.
ISABEL ALLENDE Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have do...
JAMES J. KILPATRICK You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
MARK TWAIN Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness...
KHALED HOSSEINI Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're do...
E. L. DOCTOROW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
DAVID CRONENBERG More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children....
SONYA HARTNETT A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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ADRIAN D. HOLMES It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is...
WILL LEITCH Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless a...
LAUREN KATE Writing is thinking on paper.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft.
O'BRIEN BROWNE Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
IVANA TRUMP You have to be cognizant that when you're writing something on the Internet, the wrong people could ...
DAVE NICHOLS I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
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KILROY J. OLDSTER Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
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ERROL MORRIS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabun...
DAVID SHIELDS Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.
CHLOE THURLOW Never put off writing until you are better at it.
GARY HENDERSON Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
STEPHEN KING I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.
MICHELLE L. BUCKLEY A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
JERRY B. JENKINS Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Writing ‘The GREAT’ along with own name is in itself the confession of being a self-interested p...
ANUJ SOMANY Clichés are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.
PAWAN MISHRA Tell a story in fewer and simpler words.
PAWAN MISHRA Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz...
MARY KARR Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
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EDWARD FAHEY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
STEPHEN KING The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
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BOB FOSSE Writing is your soul on paper
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JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability.
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