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Writers on Writing: Overcoming Writer's Block (page two)

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Writers on Writing: Overcoming Writer's Block (page two)

Maya Angelou

  • "Planning to write is not writing. Outlining--researching--talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."
    (E. L. Doctorow)


  • "If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not--and the odds are against it--go to your desk, no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper--write."
    (J. B. Priestly)


  • "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write."
    (Gertrude Stein)


  • "The writer's duty is to keep on writing."
    (William Styron)


  • "Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun."
    (Daniel Pinkwater)

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