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Writing Quotes

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out
I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip
Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.