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“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
John Jakes
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”
Bill Watterson
“Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.”
Ivern Ball
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Oscar Wilde
“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
Albert Camus
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
Alice Walker
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition”
Graham Greene