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C. Day Lewis

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

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Donna Grant

"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

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Donna Grant

"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea."

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Donna Grant

"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

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Donna Grant

"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

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Donna Grant

"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."

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Donna Grant

"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

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C. Day Lewis
"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

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C. Day Lewis
"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it."

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C. Day Lewis
"No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?"

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C. Day Lewis
"Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon."

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