Paul Keene Favourite Quotes Collection

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I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 35
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 29
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen KingWriting 51
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Dont tell me the moon is shining show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton ChekhovWriting 67
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The only way to guarantee failure is to stop trying.
Michael J. SullivanWriting 46
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The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais NinWriting 73
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Stephen KingWriting 50
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 80
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A writer is a person who did not force their spirit to grow up.
Brant LandonWriting 49
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The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 63
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It is the tale, not he who tells it.
Stephen KingWriting 76
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 82
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When you write, you dream, tapping into your imagination. Sometimes, even creating a whole new world.
Steph ChristinaWriting 66
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things Im afraid of.
Joss WhedonWriting 76
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An author creates a world in every book they write; the reader brings that world to life in their imagination.
Peter AmselWriting 79
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Someone said: The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. Precisely, and they are what we know.
T.S. EliotWriting 85
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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
Craig ClaiborneWriting 73
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So what All writers are lunatics
Cornelia FunkeWriting 79
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Writing is the art of weaving words to create a magical picture.
Diane Mae RobinsonWriting 81
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No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Isaac BabelWriting 88
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He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
George OrwellWriting 87
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You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LewisWriting 84
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you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen KingWriting 98
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Write with passion and purpose!
Aditi ChopraWriting 121
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You are destined to become the author that your aspirations and work ethic dictate.
Brant LandonWriting 90
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
Ernest HemingwayWriting 92
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Readers are often fans of authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages we give birth to, after all.
Janae MitchellWriting 99
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Mason CooleyWriting 100
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You can fix anything but a blank page.
Nora RobertsWriting 107
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen Kingwriting 138
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingwaywriting 144
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Never underestimate the power of the written word.
Brant LandonWriting 207
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen Kingwriting 266
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