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Writers on Writing

Posted on | March 3, 2010 | No Comments

There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. —Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. —Anaïs Nin

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. —Toni Morrison

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. —Mark Twain

Every writer I know has trouble writing. —Joseph Heller

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