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"It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
Aldous Huxley
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"
Jose Saramago
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"
Henry David Thoreau
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"
T. S. Eliot
"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
Anne Sexton
"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
Anne Sexton
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first "
Blaise Pascal
"You fail only if you stop writing."
Ray Bradbury
"Novels are a marathon, while screenplays are a sprint"
David Benioff
"What I enjoy most are the challenges that the writing process presents"
David Benioff
"A movie script is a barebones thing, and publishing a novel is like opening yourself up for criticism and analysis"
David Benioff
"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree."
Alberto Moravia
"A writer often needs he has been untrue to himself in the process of writing."
Alberto Moravia
"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"
Samuel Beckett
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"I want to write I want to write the songs of my people"
Margaret Walker
"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be"
Anne Bronte
"Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest."
Steven Wright
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"
Jorge Luis Borges
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