• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typeWriterribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

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• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

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• Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

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• You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 154 reads

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• You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

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• You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 185 reads

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• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

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• You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

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• You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 20 reads

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