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A Select Collection of Writing Quotes

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Gaston Bachelard: Writing Quotes
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Robert Frost: Writing Quotes
All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Henry Ward Beecher: Writing Quotes
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

John Osborne: Writing Quotes
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Ben Franklin: Writing Quotes
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Socrates: Writing Quotes
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Flannery O'Connor: Writing Quotes
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Henry David Thoreau: Writing Quotes
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Peter De Vries: Writing Quotes
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

William Faulkner: Writing Quotes
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

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