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No doubt I
shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning,
planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,
things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived
at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of
unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the
facts.
-- Alexander Trocchi
1925-1983, Italian-Scottish
Novelist, Poet, Translator
As to the
adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
Most writers
regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and
therefore are economical in its use.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
Write without
pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers
within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended
for.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
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My idea is
always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for
the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next,
and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
-- Source Unknown
You don't
write because you want to say something; you write because
you've got something to say.
-- Source Unknown
Writing is
simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of
paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your
belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the
typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on
your forehead.
-- Source Unknown
Often I think
writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always
something thinner, barer, more meager.
-- Source Unknown
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