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“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

Harold Ross quotes (American Writer New Yorker founder, 1892-1951)

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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”

William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)

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“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”

Enrique Jardiel Poncela quotes (Spanish writer, 1901-1952)

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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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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

James A. Michener quotes (U.S. novelist and short-story writer, 1907?-1997)

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“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”

Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)

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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

Gene Fowler quotes (American journalist and biographer, 1890-1960)

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“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes (Polish-born American writer 1904-1991)

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“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

Mickey Spillane quotes

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“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”

Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

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

Philip Dusenberry quotes

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