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Quotes about writing—from writers worth quoting.
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Yogi Berra's wordplay wisdom for writers: "It ain't over till it's over" and more
Hunter Thompson on finding your niche: "If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it ..."
Ernest Hemingway on resolve: "The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
Richard Bach on resolve: "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
Kurt Vonnegut on organization: "The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. ..."
Henry Miller on fiction writing: "One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Samuel Beckett on writing: "James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
Hunter S. Thompson on mentors: "He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Vladimir Nabokov on character development: "The writer’s job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them."
Peter De Vries on editing: "Write drunk, edit sober."
F. Scott Fitzgerald on editing: "Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke."
Thomas Jefferson on simplicity: "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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