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I love good quotes, especially from writers. Here are more favorites:
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. -- Norman Mailer
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. -- Anton Chekov
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. -- Henry David Thoreau
Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? -- Philip Pullman
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. -- Cyril Connolly
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. -- William Wordsworth
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. -- Doris Lessing
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. -- CS Lewis
...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. -- Stephen King
Do any of these speak to you? Have you run across any good quotes lately?
