Mignon McLaughlin Quotes About Writing
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There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
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An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
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A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
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Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
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Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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