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Writing Quotes

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
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 he hears within
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
The first draft of anything is shit
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either