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Writing Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
- Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.
- I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the…
- Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the…
- One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could…
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,…
- But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
- Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
- Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial…
- People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong