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Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King writing 273
Daddy warned me about men and alcohol. But he never warned me about women and cocaine. Tallulah Bankhead Writing 238
Never underestimate the power of the written word. Brant Landon Writing 210
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway writing 158
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope Writing 158
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. Virginia Woolf Writing 155
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. Stephen King writing 155
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz Kafka Writing 142
I was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself. Mark Twain Writing 131
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. Bill Watterson Writing 125
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Lord Byron Writing 124
One day I will find the right words and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac Writing 124
Write with passion and purpose! Aditi Chopra Writing 123
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I could never tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anyone would believe. Mark Twain Writing 119
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Herman Melville Writing 119
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. Mason Cooley Writing 118
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? George Orwell Writing 114
You can fix anything but a blank page. Nora Roberts Writing 112
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. Brenda Ueland Writing 111
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. Ernest Hemingway Writing 110
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Sylvia Plath Writing 110
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. Stendhal Writing 107
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. Horace Walpole Writing 106
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. T.S. Eliot Writing 103
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 Mitchell Writing 102
you must not come lightly to the blank page. Stephen King Writing 100
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. George Orwell Writing 98
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever Charles Bukowski Writing 97
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought. Marshall McLuhan Writing 96
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Rainer Maria Rilke Writing 95
The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. Kellie Elmore Writing 95
When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball. Willard R. Espy Writing 94
Writing is the art of weaving words to create a magical picture. Diane Mae Robinson Writing 93
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. Virginia Woolf Writing 91
You are destined to become the author that your aspirations and work ethic dictate. Brant Landon Writing 91
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel Writing 90
If theres a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet then you must write it. Toni Morrison Writing 89
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. Joseph Brodsky Writing 89
Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder. Peggy Ullman Bell Writing 88
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. Craig Claiborne Writing 88
You can make anything by writing. C.S. Lewis Writing 88
Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting. Robin D. Laws Writing 88
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 Orwell Writing 88
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. Eliot Writing 87
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live I wouldnt brood. Id type a little faster. Isaac Asimov Writing 86
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse Writing 86
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway Writing 85
So what All writers are lunatics Cornelia Funke Writing 84
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway Writing 84
If I had known how much work it would be, I would never have bothered No Writer EVER Writing 82

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