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Writing Quotes - Page 422

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Bloodchild: And Other Stories”, p.128, Open Road Media

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

"An Interview with Norton Juster, Author of The Phantom Tollbooth". Interview with RoseEtta Stone, www.underdown.org.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

"Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Laurie Likes Books and Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.

I need to write to be happy.

"Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.