T-13 #42 Favorite Quotes about Writing

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13 Quotes about Writing

1. "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." Anaïs Nin

2. "Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say." Sharon O'Brien

3. "The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium." Norbet Platt

4. "The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say." Mark Twain

5. I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

6. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E.L. Doctorow

7. "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
William Wordsworth

8. "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." Hannah Arendt

9. "It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." Joan Baez

10. "Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

11. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

12. "Be obscure clearly." E.B. White

13. "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison

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Thought for Today
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath