SSP
“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
“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
E. B. White
“If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
Kingsley Amis
“I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there’s a paragraph that’s alive.”
Philip Roth
“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
Melinda Haynes
“What is written without effort is in generally read without pleasure.”
Samuel Johnson
“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“When we read, we stat at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.”
Vickie Karp
“I write for the same reason I breathe — because if I didn’t, I would die.”
Isaac Asimov
“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others’ minds.”
Alfred Kazin
“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
Julia Ward Howe
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