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Theme: Writing
1. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doctorow
2. I try to leave out the parts that people skip. - Elmore Leonard
3. If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison
4. The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. - Norbet Platt
5. It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. - Vita Sackville-West
6. I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. - James Michener
7. The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
8. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. - William Wordsworth
9. The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there... clamoring to become visible. - Vladimir Nabakov
10. Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. - Terri Guillemets
11. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James Michener
12. Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. - Jeb Dickerson
13. Words - so innocent and powerless as they are... how potent for good and evil they become. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor
16. God composes, why shouldn't we? - Terri Guillemets
17. A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. - Baltasar Gracián
18. Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. - Sholem Asch
19. If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - Lord Byron
20. Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes
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