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“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
“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'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.”
Stephen Wright
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”
Peter De Vries
“Writing and learning and thinking are the same process”
William Zinsser
“I don't like to write, but I love to have written”
Michael Kanin
“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
Albert Camus
“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
Ralph Ellison