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“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
Gloria Steinem
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Mark Twain
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
Anais Nin
“When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I always wanted to be an artist, so I was this loner kid who just got drunk all the time. I only had one real friend. There was a girl I really liked, and she ended up taking really sleazy photographs with her boyfriend, and that really crushed me, I was just swimming in this pit of despair, jealousy and alcoholism.”
Gerard Way
