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WRITING: How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (Unknown Source)

WRITING: The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Unknown Source)

WRITING: If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Unknown Source)

WRITING: I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. (Francoise Sagan, French playwright and novelist, 1935-2004)

WRITING: Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (Cory Doctorow, Canadian-British science fiction author and journalist, Born 1971)

WRITING: How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (E.M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist, 1879-1970)

WRITING: The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way. (Richard Harding Davis, U.S. journalist and war correspondent, 1864-1916)

WRITING: If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

WRITING: What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! (Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880)

WRITING: Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (E. L. Doctorow, U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015)

WRITING: Hard writing is easy reading; easy writing is hard reading. (E.B. White, U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed childrenâ€™s book, Charlotteâ€™s Web, 1899-1985)

WRITING: Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher and mystic, 1260-1327)

WRITING: A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

WRITING: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

WRITING: A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order. (Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director and screenwriter, Born 1930)

WRITING: The pen is the tongue of the mind. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)

WRITING: How do I know what I think until I see what I say? (E.M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist, 1879-1970)

WRITING: The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, 1840-1928)

WRITING: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)

WRITING: Get black on white. (Guy de Maupassant, French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, 1850-1893)