Writing and rewriting
are a constant search
for what one is trying to say.

—John Updike

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When I began to write,
I found out that this was
the best way to make sense of my life.

—John Cheever

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I know I was writing stories when I was five.
I don’t know what I did before that . . .
just loafed, I guess.

—A. N. Whitehead

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Read a lot,
write a lot
is the great commandment.

—Stephen King

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.

—Joan Didion

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The difference between the right word
and the almost-right word is really a large matter—
’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain

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