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Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 16, 2013

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Welty, Eudora (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 15, 2013

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Cary, Joyce (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 14, 2013

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues—which takes years.

Haley, Alex (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 13, 2013

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

Williamson, Marianne (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 12, 2013

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Wells, H.G. (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 11, 2013

Writing well means never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.’

Mallet, Jef (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 10, 2013

I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

DeVries, Peter (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 09, 2013

Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

Flesch, Rudolf (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 08, 2013

First you’re an unknown; then, you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

Myers, Martin (0)

Compiled by OFW editor: Kristina Kennedy Publish Date: September 07, 2013

Forcing modern speakers of English to not – whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn’t done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Pinker, Steven (0)

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