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In the meantime, here are some wonderful quotes about writing to spark the imagination.

Quotes About Writing

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

-E. L. Doctorow

-In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

-Ray Bradbury

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

-Ernest Hemingway

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

-Margaret Atwood

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

- Ernest Hemingway

People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.

- Harlan Ellison

A word is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just begins

to live that day.

- Emily Dickinson

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created – nothing.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

- Richard Wright

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

- Mark Twain

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