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Writing Quotes - Page 475

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). “Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004". Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”