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A Select Collection of Quotes on Writing

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T. S. Eliot: Quotes on Writing
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

David Hare: Quotes on Writing
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

Mark Twain: Quotes on Writing
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.

Raymond Chandler: Quotes on Writing
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

Samuel Johnson: Quotes on Writing
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.

Bulwer-Lytton: Quotes on Writing
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richard Harding Davis: Quotes on Writing
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Truman Capote: Quotes on Writing
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Lord Byron: Quotes on Writing
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Dan Quayle: Quotes on Writing
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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