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Writing Quotes - Page 413

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.45, Hachette UK

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.104, Grove Press

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.57, Vintage