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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
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Mark Twain
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
Gloria Steinem
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“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
“Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”
Dean Koontz
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
Ray Bradbury
