Writers comment on writing…
“I had one single ambition, in which I never wavered, in the prosecution of which I spent every ounce I could, on which I really and deliberately staked my whole contentment; and I recognise myself as having unmistakably failed in it. (a letter to a friend concerning his writing career)” - C.S. Lewis
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.” - William Faulkner
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
” - Anais Nin
“If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” - Wilson Mizner
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.” - Gustave Flaubert
“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.” - Jules Renard
“Words realize nothing, verify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)” - Mark Twain
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This was encouraging to me.