Donald Murray quotes
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“Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.”
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“How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.”
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“The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge of discomfort...Later, it will be time for consideration and reconsideration, slow, careful revision and editing. But on the first draft I have to achieve velocity, just as you do if you want the bike to balance.”
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“Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.”
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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.”
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“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”
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