My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.- Samuel Beckett
I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written. - Mason Cooley
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper. - John Dos Passos
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley
I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.
-Anne Sexton
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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