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Here are what some famous writers have said about their craft . . .

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.  –  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are
well written or badly written.  –  Oscar Wilde

It is the purpose of literature to turn blood into ink.  –  T.S. Eliot

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality
of his mind is written large in his works.  –  Virginia Woolf

The difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference
between the lightning and the lightning-bug.  –  Mark Twain

The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom
nobody can imitate.  –  Francois Rene de Chateaubriand

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.  –  Herman Melville

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?  –  E.M. Forster

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.  –  Jack London

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and
pretty soon you have a dozen.  –  John Steinbeck

The first draft of anything is shit.  –  Ernest Hemingway

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining . . . researching . . . talking to
people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing.
Writing is writing.  –  E.L. Doctorow

From my close observation of writers … they fall into two groups: 1) those
who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who
bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review  –  Isaac Asimov

Creativity is a continual surprise.  –  Ray Bradbury

In art economy is alway beauty.  –  Henry James

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two
words when one will do.  –  Thomas Jefferson

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and
a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages.
The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.  –  Elie Wiesel

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.  –  Goethe

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.  –  Rudyard Kipling

Political chaos is connected with the decay of the language … one can probably bring
about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.  –  George Orwell

Either write something worth reading or do something
worth writing  –  Benjamin Franklin

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute,
a nun, a young girl, or a stall holder in a market, it is always ourselves
that we are describing.  –  Guy De Maupassant

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most
useful. It pervades the whole being. The administrator with a sense for style hates
waste; the engineer with a sense for style economizes his material; the artisan
with a sense for style prefers good work. Style is the ultimate
morality of mind.  –  Alfred North Whitehead

I don’t want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life…. I want you to
miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife
to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro
while you read a few more chapters.  –  Stephen King

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and
writing an exact man.  –  Francis Bacon

Being a writer is like having homework every night for
the rest of your life.  –  Lawrence Kasdan

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up
because by that time I was too famous.  –  Robert Benchley

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write,
try to leave out all the parts readers skip.  –  Elmore Leonard

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and education —
sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.  –  E.B. White

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write it as it occurs to you.
The writing is easy — it’s the occurring that’s hard.  –  Stephen Leacock

Language is a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes to make the bears dance,
when what we long for is to move the stars to pity.  –  Gustave Flaubert

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins,
lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. If it persists,
you probably ought to write a novel.  –  Lawrence Block

Don’t ask to live in tranquil time. Literature doesn’t grow there.  –  Rita Mae Brown

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.  –  Robert Frost

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you
can write will be the best you are.  –  Henry David Thoreau

What is written without effort is read without pleasure  –  Samuel Johnson

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,
compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic
fear which is inherent in a human situation.  –  Graham Greene

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting
does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them.
Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.  –  Truman Capote

There are three rules to writing fiction. Unfortunately, no one
knows what they are.  –  Somerset Maugham

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till
you come to the end: then stop.”  –  Lewis Carroll

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest
of the day taking it out.  –  Oscar Wilde

Writing is one of the most easy, pain-free, and happy ways to pass the time in all
the arts. For example, right now I am sitting in my rose garden and typing on my new
computer. Each rose represents a story, so I’m never at a loss for what to write. I just look
deep into the heart of the rose and read its story and write it down through typing, which
I enjoy anyway. I could be typing “kjfiu joewmv jiw” and would enjoy it as much as
typing words that actually make sense. I simply relish the movement of my fingers
on the keys. Sometimes, it is true, agony visits the head of a writer. At these
moments, I stop writing and relax with a coffee at my favorite restaurant,
knowing that words can be changed, rethought, fiddled with, and,
of course, ultimately denied. Painters don’t have that luxury.
If they go to a coffee shop, their paint dries into a
hard mass.  –  Steve Martin

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog,
it’s too dark to read.  –  Groucho Marx

The business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest
things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.  –  Thomas Hardy

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique
alone is just an embroidered potholder.  –  Raymond Chandler

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile
driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it
a third time — a tremendous whack.  –  Winston Churchill

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the
world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows
it is not true.  –  John Steinbeck

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction
has to make sense.  –  Tom Clancy

Good writing is like a windowpane.  –  George Orwell

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings
that refuse to start.  –  Horace

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them
without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to
have them explode in your face from time to time.  –  Stephen Fry

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the
poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep,
crawl, flush, or thunder in.  –  Dylan Thomas

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer.
But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth,
without pity. and destroy most of it.  –  Colette

Use plain, simple language, short words, and brief sentences. That is the way
to write English — it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it;
don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch
an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean all, but kill most of
them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken
when they are close together. They give strength
when they are wide apart.  –  Mark Twain

A writer’s style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and
his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of
brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and
competent stylists.  –  Ernest Hemingway

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time,
unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact
word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.  –  Robert Cormier

Books aren’t written — they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one
of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh
rewrite hasn’t quite done it.  –  Michael Crichton

If any man wish to write a clear style, let him first
be clear in his thoughts.  –  Goethe

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything
that can be said can be said clearly.  –  Ludwig Wittgenstein

Half my life is an act of revision.  –  John Irving

I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.  –  Peter De Vries

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.  –  Kingsley Amis

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about
grammar is its power.  –  Joan Didion

A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, must not only be pure, but above
suspicion of impurity.  –  Edgar Allan Poe

I write to find out what I’m talking about.  –  Edward Albee

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays:
don’t write about Man, write about a man.  –  E.B. White

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what
his subject has to tell him.  –  Rachel Carson

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit
things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough,
will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer
had stated them.  –  Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a sacred calling — but so are gardening, dentistry and plumbing, so don’t
put on airs. Writers are journalists before they’re anything else. You keep coming back
to journalism, which is continually hard work, to describe action, to narrate a sequence of
events and somehow keep your own fine sensibility out of it, to simply say how the game
progressed. In all the best poems you find precise reporting, and this has very little to do
with the mood of the writer. You can write comedy when you’re sick, when you’re
lonely as a barn owl and your head hurts and your friends are mad at you.
It’s just work, that’s all, and you go do it if you need to. It’s a good
life being a writer. Be grateful for it. And don’t give
advice to writers, no matter who asks
you to.  –  Garrison Keillor

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