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Writing

«My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.»
Author: Anthony Beal (Author, Editor, Poet) | About: Writing
«Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.»
«My compositions deserve the medal, not me.»
Author: Elliot T. Carter | About: Writing | Keywords: compositions
«Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.»
«My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.»
«Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.»
«My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel»
«My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Writing | Keywords: My Aim, on paper, put down, simplest
«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.»
«Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.»