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Writing Quotes

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity
Write what you know
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.