var quotes=new Array()
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quotes[0]='A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. --Gertrude Stein'
quotes[1]='A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. --Friedrich Nietzsche'
quotes[2]='You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. --Ray Bradbury'
quotes[3]='Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. --E.L. Doctorow '
quotes[4]='Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. --Alice Walker '
quotes[5]='I write poetry in order to live more fully. --Judith Rodriguez '
quotes[6]='To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. --Karl Kraus '
quotes[7]='There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith'
quotes[8]='Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good days work. --Ernest Hemingway'
quotes[9]='The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. --Anaïs Nin'
quotes[10]='Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. --Sholem Asch'
quotes[11]='I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. --John Updike'
quotes[12]='Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. --Rainer Maria Rilke'
quotes[13]='Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. --Rod Serling '
quotes[14]='Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. --Mark Twain '
quotes[15]='Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. --Cyril Connolly '
quotes[16]='Only a mediocre writer is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham,'
quotes[17]='No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. --Robert Frost'
quotes[18]='The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length, and sometimes even the personality of a character. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez'
quotes[19]='There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. --W. Somerset Maugham'
quotes[20]='If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. -- William Faulkner'
quotes[21]='What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. --Rudolph Erich Rascoe'
quotes[22]='A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.--Margaret Atwood'
quotes[23]='Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. --Rudyard Kipling'
quotes[24]='I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. --Isaac Asimov'
quotes[25]='Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. --Francis Bacon '
quotes[26]='In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want, and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball. --Neil Simon '
quotes[27]='If we had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage. --Cynthia Ozick '
quotes[28]='A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. --E.B. White '
quotes[29]='Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. You're never going to be a writer unless you write. You have to sit down and write. --Jane Yolen'
quotes[30]='Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. --Giorgos Seferis '
quotes[31]='I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. --Dylan Thomas'
quotes[32]='There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. --Oscar Wilde'
quotes[33]='There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. --Raymond Carver'
quotes[34]='There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. --Katherine Paterson'
quotes[35]='Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. --Virginia Woolf'
quotes[36]='Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. --Craig Raine'
quotes[37]='Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many. --Juvenal'
quotes[38]='An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. --Chateaubriand'
quotes[39]='If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. --Toni Morrison '
quotes[40]='Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death -- fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. --Edna Ferber'
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