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There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a
typewriter and open a vein.  ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L.
Doctorow

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he
whispers.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts,
1931

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on
broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov

Easy reading is damn hard writing.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love writing.  I love the swirl and swing of words as they
tangle with human emotions.  ~James Michener

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains;
God composes, why shouldn't we?  ~Audra Foveo-Alba

When something can be read without effort, great effort has
gone into its writing.  ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.  ~Lord Byron

Writers are not just people who sit down and write.  They
hazard themselves.  Every time you compose a book your
composition of yourself is at stake.  ~E.L. Doctorow

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and
devils, too.  ~Graycie Harmon
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December 2007-2011
Some of my
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