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Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Stichwörter: writing inspiration on-writing

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Herman Melville

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I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Richard Brautigan

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Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Stephen King

Stichwörter: on-writing

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Norton Juster

Stichwörter: on-writing storytelling

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

Stichwörter: words writing on-writing

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Connie Willis

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Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

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