writing Quotes

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

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“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly, so that there could be no mistaking it.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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