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• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Achievement, Squandering

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

  Robert Graves

  Money, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Hands, Ashamed

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.233, Penguin

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Crafts

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

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• It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Business, Writing, Thinking

  "With Hemingway". Book by Arnold Samuelson, 1984.

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• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  J. J. Abrams

  Hate, Mean, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

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• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

  Walter Moers

  Sea, Paper, Redundant

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press

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• You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Use, Want

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.8, Anchor

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• The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Hands, Given

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.213, Courier Corporation

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• The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Soul, Tongue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1898). “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”

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• Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldn’t be anything that different about Vikings, but there is, because there’ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.

  Clive Standen

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

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• There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

  Demian Bichir

  Beautiful, Acting, Separation

  "Demian Bichir Talks A BETTER LIFE, Chris Weitz, Auditioning for TWILIGHT: NEW MOON, and More at SBIFF". Interview, collider.com. February 5, 2012.

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• Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Men, Giving

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• Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plain Language, Imagination

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• Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Book, Fate

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Writing, Want, Favour

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• Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Reading, Hero, Intelligent

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• If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

  James Iha

  Song, Together, Different

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• I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Children, Book, Writing

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• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  Zane Grey

  Men, Stories, He Man

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• There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

  Henry Petroski

  Understanding, Fiction, Way

  "‘Unsinkable’ Boats Possible? Titanic Scholar Talks Design". Scientific American Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

  Maurice Jarre

  Writing, Littles, Kind

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• I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

  Jonathan Ames

  Want, Divulge

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• I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

  Max Brooks

  Mind, Records

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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