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What Are Some Great Quotes On The Craft Of Writing?

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    A lot of writers have written some fun, provoking and stimulating things about writing, here are some of my favourite quotes that I have collected over the years:

    Stephen King: Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

    Truman Capote: I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

    The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof sh*t-detector. (Ernest Hemingway)

    A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
    (Franz Kafka)

    Write without pay until someone offers to pay - Mark Twain

    "I write for the same reason I breathe -- because if I didn't, I would die."  Isaac Asimov

    "Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
    Tom Stoppard

    "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
    G. K. Chesterton
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    Epictetus 

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