Important Quotes

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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. — Van Wyck Brooks
...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a… — Brian Stableford
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,… — John Green
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are… — John Green
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein
You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in… — Elizabeth Berg
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every… — Madeleine L'Engle
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings… — Stephen King
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning. — Jack Prelutsky
Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how… — Janet Burroway
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your… — Toni Morrison
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. — Zadie Smith
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself… — Donald Murray
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. — Paul Horgan
The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good… — Alan Cohen
We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our… — Henri Nouwen

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