5 Quotes about Writing to Share with You


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Here are 5 quotes posted at AD some time ago by my writer friend Susan Sonnen. I liked them so much I wrote them down to keep. Hope you find 1 or 2 interesting. shbx

1) Love the writing,love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. Jane Yolen

2) Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
(Mark Twain)

3) The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. (John Irving)

4) I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. (Charlotte Bronte)

5) Writers aren't exactly people... they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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Comments

chuck | December 5, 2009 - 15:31

"Writers aren't exactly people... they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)"

Very true. Mind you I think a lot of readers have identity problems too. Writers happen to write about it.

SundaysChild | December 5, 2009 - 19:01

Great stuff. Thanks for posting.

Ewan | December 5, 2009 - 19:56

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

Joseph Heller.

Well there had to be a catch, didn't there?