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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much... of my writing is verbal painting.
Elizabeth Bowen

Good writing is rewriting.
Truman Capote

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Gene Fowler

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

The problem is to teach ourselves to think, and the writing will take care of itself.
Christopher Mobley

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
Quintilian

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite right noun when the right noun is available?
William Safire

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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