09-11-2011, 12:00 AM
"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer." ~ Barbara Kingsolver
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~ Truman Capote
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~ Elias Canetti
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. ~ Alfred Kazin
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.~ Heather Sellers
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. ~ William Wordsworth
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.~ Natalie Goldberg
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Some quotes
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~ William Wordsworth
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~ Truman Capote
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. ~ Elias Canetti
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is both mask and unveiling. ~ E.B. White
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. ~ Alfred Kazin
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.~ Heather Sellers
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. ~ William Wordsworth
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.~ Natalie Goldberg
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Some quotes