Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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The word impossible is not French.

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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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