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Writing

«Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.»
«Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness»
«Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.»
«Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges (Essayist, Poet) | About: Writing | Keywords: guided, Nothing More
«Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.»
Author: Jules Renard (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: considers, earn, profession, ridiculous
«Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.»
«Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it»
«Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.»
«Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.»
«Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.»
Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: fun