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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.Madeleine L'Engle
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.Elmore Leonard
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Essays of Three Decades
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.Micere Githae Mugo
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.George Orwell
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.Jodi Picoult
Everyone has a book in them, but it doesn’t do any good until you pry it out of them.Jody Picoult
Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.Sylvia Plath
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.Madeleine L'Engle
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.Elmore Leonard
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
Essays of Three Decades
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.Micere Githae Mugo
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.George Orwell
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.Jodi Picoult
Everyone has a book in them, but it doesn’t do any good until you pry it out of them.Jody Picoult
Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.Sylvia Plath
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