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Letter "W" » Writing
«Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
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«Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness»
Author: Georges Simenon
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
profession, The Writings, unhappiness, vocation, vocations, writing
«Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.»
«Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.»
«Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.»
«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
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«Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it»
Author: Octavia Butler
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
frustrations, get rid of, hostilities, in public, paid, professions, psychoanalyse, public, rid, rid of, Rid of Me, writing
«Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.»
Author: Olin Miller
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
alligator, alligators, earning, exception, wrestled, wrestles, wrestling
«Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
afterwards, ashamed, hands, in private, necessarily, private, privates, the Wash, wash, wash out, writing
«Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.»
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