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A Select Collection of Quotations about Writing

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Elie Wiesel: Quotations about Writing
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Henry David Thoreau: Quotations about Writing
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Sharon O'Brien: Quotations about Writing
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

Sholem Asch: Quotations about Writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Jules Renard: Quotations about Writing
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.

Stephen Leacock: Quotations about Writing
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Jack London: Quotations about Writing
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotations about Writing
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say.

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