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    Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in read more

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it

by Octavia Butler Found in: Writing Quotes,
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Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have read more

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

by Vanna Bonta Found in: Writing Quotes,
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

by Lord Byron Found in: Writing Quotes,
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

by William Styron Found in: Writing Quotes,
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I don't like to write, but I love to have written

I don't like to write, but I love to have written

by Michael Kanin Found in: Writing Quotes,
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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they read more

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read more

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Writing Quotes,
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is read more

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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