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There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad,… — Robertson Davies
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong
Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. — Harry Kemelman
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively… — Arthur Kleinman
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. — Flannery O'Connor
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. — Paul Schrader
To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't… — John Steinbeck
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite… — John Steinbeck
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen… — Lewis Thomas
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… — Lewis Thomas
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the… — Stephen King
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — James Thayer
A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting. — Dr. Seuss
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. — Ernest Hemingway

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