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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. ↗

— Jincy Willett

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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. ↗

— Washington Irving

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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you. ↗

— Alma Alexander

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You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. ↗

— Carlos J. Cortes

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