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«Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
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ADD, canvas, eliminate, eliminates, Eliminating, in working order, pages, painting, put on, reader, remove, sculpture, sculptures, somehow, visible
«Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness»
Author: Georges Simenon
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Writing
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profession, The Writings, unhappiness, vocation, vocations, writing
«Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.»
«Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.»
«Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.»
«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
Author: Melvin Maddocks
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
callings, captain, demanding, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, in essence, message, The Harrow, warrior, whales, whaling
«Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it»
Author: Octavia Butler
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
frustrations, get rid of, hostilities, in public, paid, professions, psychoanalyse, public, rid, rid of, Rid of Me, writing
«Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.»
Author: Olin Miller
| About:
Writing
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alligator, alligators, earning, exception, wrestled, wrestles, wrestling
«Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
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afterwards, ashamed, hands, in private, necessarily, private, privates, the Wash, wash, wash out, writing
«Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.»
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