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 Some people are born knowing how to tell a story. They have a sense of timing, of organization of facts. After that, it is a long way to becoming a writer.

 The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.Toni Morrison If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
  Toni Morrison

 The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
  Agatha Christie

 The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
  Mark Twain

 The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
  Robert Benchley

 The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.

 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
  Samuel Johnson

 The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
  Lionel Trilling

 The pen is mightier than the sword.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
  Lionel Trilling

 The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
  Elias Canetti

 The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

 The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
  Anthony Trollope

 The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
  John Mortimer

 The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
  George Sand


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