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Writing

«Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.»
«Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.»
«Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.»
«Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.»
Author: F. Sagan | About: Writing | Keywords: progression, rhythm, rhythmic, rhythms, Time Life
«Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.»
«Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition»
«Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | About: Communication, Writing | Keywords: communication, parts
«Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming in booze, but the hours you write should be sober and with purpose.»
Author: Steve Gilliard | About: Writers, Writing | Keywords: booze, sober, swimming, The Hours
«Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Writing | Keywords: dreadful, idleness, labor
«Writing is a craft not an art.»
Author: William Zinsser | About: Writing | Keywords: craft, crafted, crafts, The Craft, writing