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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer

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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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Paul J. Meyer

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Writing is a craft not an art.
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William Zinsser

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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Thomas Carlyle

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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E. L. Doctorow

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Elwyn Brooks White

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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Edward Dahlberg

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Iris Murdoch

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Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
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Georges Simenon

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Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Philippe Sollers

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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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Olin Miller

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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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Gloria Steinem

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Writing is thinking on paper.
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William Zinsser

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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J. P. Donleavy

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Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
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Patrick Dennis

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
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Alice Walker

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Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
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Carl Van Doren

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
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Voltaire

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writers and Writing
Source Unknown

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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George Bernard Shaw

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun