Wallace Stegner Quotes About Writing
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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