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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Robert Frost

Tag: reading writing

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Tag: imitation writing originality writers

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

Anaïs Nin

Tag: writing

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

Tag: books writing

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

Tag: books writing writers children difficult grown-ups write

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

Tag: writing

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

J.D. Salinger

Tag: writing holden

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

Tag: writing

A dear and long-time friend,... asked me, "Jack, how long does it usually take you to write a book?" I replied, "Of course it depends on the project and its requirements, each book has its own rules. But for a statement to the world at large, once I've thought a book through and written it in my mind, it takes me around a week or so, depending on this and that, ordinarily at the rate of a chapter a day, but I've had some two-chapters day and some chapters have taken two days. And then of course there is revision, but around a week is about right." He seemed surprised, and I was surprised by his surprise, so I thought, maybe I'm wrong. I went home and wrote this book, at the perfectly normal pace of a chapter a day, as usual...

Jacob Neusner

Tag: writing writing-craft