As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

James Hilton
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  2. Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.r. Martin

  3. Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her... - Anne Lamott

  4. If you wish to be a writer, write. - Epictetus

  5. A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. - Anonymous

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  1. People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

  2. If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds–even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

  3. The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively (and he thought of it as he contemplated the small orderliness of the...

  4. For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional...

  5. Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.

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