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“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”
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“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 quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.”
Jessamyn West quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)
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“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
Ralph Ellison quotes
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“Write what should not be forgotten”
Isabel Allende quotes (Chilean writer, b.1942)
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“Writing only leads to more writing.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it”
Octavia Butler quotes
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“If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average”
Derek Walcott quotes
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“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
Enrique Jardiel Poncela quotes (Spanish writer, 1901-1952)
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