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Writing Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Talent is long patience.
- It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
- Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective…
- A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
- Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
- Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
- When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
- There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
- Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
- One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
- My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
- The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
- I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound…
- You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
- It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for…
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