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A. J. Liebling
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. speed writing

Anne Sexton
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. writing

Bill Clinton
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. writing

Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. time writing

C.S. Lewis
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. writing
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations. writing
Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?' writing

Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. publicity writing

Ernest Hemingway
Write drunk; edit sober. alcohol writing
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. writing
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. writing

Flannery O'Connor
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. writing

Fran Lebowitz
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. writing
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. writing

Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. intelligence writing

George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity. writing

GK Chesterton
The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity. writing
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. writing
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. writing

Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. writing

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