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“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

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“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”

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“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes (American Writer. Author of The Great Gatsby. 1896-1940)

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“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, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition”

Graham Greene quotes (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)

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

Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)

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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes (American writer and aviation pioneer, 1906-2001)

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“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury quotes (American science-fiction short stories and novels writer,1920)

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“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.”

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Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)

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

Gao Xingjian quotes (Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic, 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1940)

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