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Quotes for Writers

(In order by popularity)

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
- Leo Tolstoy

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader-not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
- E.L. Doctorow

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- Toni Morrison

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
- Karl Kraus

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the jour-ney takes me.
- Jack Dann

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
- Robert Frost

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
- James Michener

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.
- David Eddings

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