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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work… — Lawrence Clark Powell
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. — Georges Simenon
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and… — Susan Sontag
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
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
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. — Neal Stephenson
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands. — Henry David Thoreau
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. — Anthony Trollope
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. — Barbara Tuchman
Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you… — Arnold J. Toynbee
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler

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