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Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page .

My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures .

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...