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 Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

 Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
  Stephen Leacock

 Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
  Ernest Hemingway

 Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere . . .You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

 She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

 She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

 She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a shape, while I write to cover a frame of ideas.
  H. G. Wells

 Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 Somebody would say, `Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, `Yes, of course,' because I was a hungry young journalist.
  Neil Gaiman

 Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

 Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
  Jessamyn West

 Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
  Robert Frost

 That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time


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