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Letter "W" » Writing
«Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
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Writing
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«Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
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Writing
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As You, exploration, learn, The Writings, writing
«Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
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Writing
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acceptable, form, schizophrenia, socially, The Writings, writing
«Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.»
«Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.»
Author: Gao Xingjian
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Writing
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eases, My own, My Way, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms
«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»
«Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.»
«Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming in booze, but the hours you write should be sober and with purpose.»
«Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.»
«Writing is a craft not an art.»
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