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1.	Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler
2.	A bad title can hurt you, and a good title can help you somewhat. Paul Erdman ("The Crash of ’79","The Billion Dollar Sure Thing", "The Last Days of America")
3.	As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly. Paul Rudnick
4.	It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A. Rejection slip for George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'' Great British Writers - George Orwell Buy this Poster at AllPos
5.	Emily Bronte is nothing but dust And memories of passion and unanswered lust. She wrote but one story and made it to last, Immortalised there as the lead of the cast. B. A. Llewellyn ("Emily Bronte") Great British Writers - Emily Bronte Buy this Poster at AllPosters.com
6.	I like to think of the world I created as being a kind of keystone in the universe; that, small as the keystone is, if it were ever taken away the universe itself would collapse. William Faulkner
7.	A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. William Sansom
8.	Writers have an island, a centre of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place. Wright Morris
9.	Determine what your character wants, how far he will go to achieve it and how far someone else will go to try to stop him J. Michael Straczynski ("The Complete Book of Scriptwriting")
10.	Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting. Pete Hamill
11.	Writing for money is a job … just like any other job where you want to succeed. It requires self-discipline, focus and total dedication, as well as talent and desire. B. A. Llewellyn ("Writing to a Brief")
12.	Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams, ("Half a Loaf")
13.	The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. Carson McCullers
14.	I shall live badly if I do not write and I shall write badly if I do not live. Francoise Sagan
15.	The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. Mark Twain Lightning on Road Buy this Poster at AllPosters.com
16.	I wrote my books because of a compulsion to make some record of a fascinating era in veterinary practice. I wanted to tell people what it was like to be an animal doctor in those days before penicillin, and about the things that made me laugh on my daily rounds, working in conditions, which now seem primitive. I suppose I started out with the intention of just writing a funny book, but as I progressed I found that there were so many other things that I wanted to say. I wanted to tell about the sad things too; about the splendid old characters among the animal owners of that time and about the magnificent Yorkshire countryside which at all times was the backdrop to my work. James Herriot ("All Creatures Great and Small", "All things Bright and Beautiful")
17.	Luck, you’ve got to be lucky. I’m convinced you are born with it, thought it’s latent with many people for a long time. Roald Dahl
18.	Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. Catherine Drinker Bowen
19.	The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ''curiosity'' level. Rejection slip for ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' Writers Who Changed the World - Anne Frank Buy this Poster at AllPosters.com
20.	The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Oscar Wilde
21.	If you get to know your characters well enough, the story dictates itself. J. Michael Straczynski ("The Complete Book of Scriptwriting")
22.	There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. H. L. Mencken
23.	Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard
24.	The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it. Leo Rosten
25.	The whole world can be divided into those who write and those who do not write. Soren Kierkegaard
26.	Actors are bred on the basic format and formulas of scripts, and can tell when a writer has written about a known subject matter. We can feel the intimacy and strength and truth in the writer sharing their own experiences and knowledge. B. A. Llewellyn ("Screenwriting By Actors: What are the Benefits?")
27.	Adaptations are interesting because you get to spend some time in someone else’s mind. Frances Marion
28.	Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is. Anne Rice
29.	No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. Robert Frost
30.	Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allen Poe
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