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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
Isaac Asimov
“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be”
Mark Twain
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”
Bill Stout
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”
Lawrence Clark Powell
“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
Marsha Norman
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Winston Churchill