And the subject was writing? ? sam of the ten thousand things

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Flannery O?Connor
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing ? soften their roughest edges ? to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it?s about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don?t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It?s the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Writing is its own reward.
Henry Miller
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Margaret Atwood
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
Natalie Goldberg
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Writing is not primarily escape, but use.
Henry James
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don?t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
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Don?t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekov
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
Frederich Nietzsche
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac

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~ by samofthetenthousandthings on May 29, 2012.

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