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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.