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    Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

by Nadine Gordimer Found in: Writing Quotes,
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I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is read more

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...

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I lived to write, and wrote to live

I lived to write, and wrote to live

by Samuel Rogers Found in: Writing Quotes,
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

by E. L. Doctorow Found in: Writing Quotes,
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Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

by Gao Xingjian Found in: Writing Quotes,
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Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

by William Styron Found in: Writing Quotes,
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all read more

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

by Don Delillo Found in: Writing Quotes,
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