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• If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
• Writing is thinking on paper.
• Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.
• Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
• To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.
• I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as…
• Be grateful for every word you can cut.
• Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
• Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood…
• Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach…
• I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is…
• There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want…

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