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The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product. (Quote by - Theodore Isaac Rubin)
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. (Quote by - J. P. Donleavy)
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. (Quote by - William Strunk)
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. (Quote by - Laurence Clark Powell)
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. (Quote by - Nancy Banks-Smith)
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender. (Quote by - Philip Guedalla)
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. (Quote by - B. K. Sandwell)
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)