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"I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." Anne Frank

"All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences." S Maugham

"There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes." WM Thackeray

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." Gustave Flauber

"Writing energy is like anything else. The more you put in, the more you get out." Richard Reeves

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." Daphne Du Maurier

"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart." Washington Irving

“A major writer combines these three- storyteller, teacher, enchanter- but it is the enchanter in him that predominates…” Vladimir Nabokov

"...present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw." Jules Feifer

"...a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information." Orson Scott Card

"Poetry gave me back my voice." Maya Angelou

"You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed by and by." Mark Twain

"Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul." M. K. Simmons

"A work of art has an author, and yet, when perfect, it has something which is essentially anonymous about it." Simone Weil

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." Elmore Leonard

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you." Zora Neale Hurston

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear." Ezra Pound

"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle." John Cheever

"There is in each of us an ongoing story. It contains our meaning and our destiny." Al Kreinheder

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make." Truman Capote