|  WorldStudent | Feb 17, 3:00pm | Why do writers write?
Because it isn't there.
--Thomas Berger
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I don't enjoy writing, and I certainly
would not do it for a living. Some people
do, but some people enjoy flagellation.
--Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words
won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so
fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
--Cecilia Bartholomew
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Convince yourself that you are working in clay not marble, on paper not
eternal bronze; let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. No
one will rush out and print it as it stands. Just put it down; then
another.
--Jacques Barzun, historian and essayist
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most
valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off
slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand
it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by
slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he
writes will always pay off.
--Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), U.S. author. Letter, 7 March 1947
(published in Raymond Chandler Speaking, 1962).
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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George S. Patton
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Jim Rohn |
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