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Writing

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Alberto Moravia (1907-1990)