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“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Jessamyn West quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)
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“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian quotes (Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic, 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1940)
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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
James A. Michener quotes (U.S. novelist and short-story writer, 1907?-1997)
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“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)
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“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”
Bill Stout quotes
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“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it”
Octavia Butler quotes
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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
Gene Fowler quotes (American journalist and biographer, 1890-1960)
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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
Joan Didion quotes (American Journalist and Novelist, b.1934)
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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes (American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001)
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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“If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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