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Writing Quotes - Page 443

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

"Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

"Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

"Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.12, Penguin

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books