Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. — Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. — George Gordon Byron
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which — Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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 — Colette
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When y — David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate — Dr. Seuss
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rat — Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka
You are what you write. — Helvy Tiana Rosa, Risalah Cinta
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. — Charles Baudelaire