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“The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.”
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)
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“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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