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Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night. — Irving Wallace
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back… — Truman Capote
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise… — Roger Ascham
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow. — Margaret Atwood
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — Cecil Day-Lewis
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I… — Susan Sontag
There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot. — Walter J. Ong
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined… — John Steinbeck
Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. — Kit Reed
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
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write… — Eric Partridge
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my… — Jamaica Kincaid
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't… — Dorothy Parker
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish… — Neil Gaiman
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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