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Writing Aphorisms: More Wisdom About The Craft For #WriterWednesday (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 12/08/10 09:25 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:15 PM ET

Writing Aphorisms can inspire with their succinct wit and wisdom. Last week we published a list of some of our favorites, and now we're back with more.

Here are 7 more writing aphorisms to help inspire you on this #writerwednesday ...

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Writing Aphorisms can inspire with their succinct wit and wisdom. Last week we published a list of some of our favorites, and now we're back with more. Here are 7 more writing aphorisms to help insp...
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isaidit
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02:08 PM on 12/18/2010
Wrtie because you have something to say, not because you want to say something.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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tlaltecuhtli
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10:03 PM on 12/16/2010
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of one's pants to the seat of the chair.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Kiz boy
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01:40 PM on 12/13/2010
I've already said enough.
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homer winslow
Truth in Beauty, Beauty in Truth
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10:11 AM on 12/13/2010
Reading a really well written book is like taking a walk through the Louvre.
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paxangelicus
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09:09 AM on 12/13/2010
writers are really born, not made...
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GreenAmbition
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05:34 AM on 12/10/2010
lies are tools used by fools to build monuments of nothingness and those who specialize in using them aren't about anything but nothing.
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GreenAmbition
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05:30 AM on 12/10/2010
I've always liked this one;

right is right even if no one agrees and wrong is wrong even if everyone agrees
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BKearney
Life is funny, skies are sunny, bees make honey
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07:00 PM on 12/09/2010
I read this on a toilet seat cover dispenser in a bar in San Francisco on my 50th birthday;
You do not have a soul
You have a body
You are a soul
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Camel54
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03:44 PM on 12/09/2010
"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Mark Twain
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kelib
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03:10 PM on 12/09/2010
Plus "Truth isn't hard to find when you agree with it."
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kelib
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02:59 PM on 12/09/2010
Truth isn't hard to find if you know wear to look. Knowing you need to look is what;s difficult.
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jettplane
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02:28 PM on 12/09/2010
True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell Translation, 81)
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tweeksmom
This space for rent.
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11:54 AM on 12/09/2010
Just about everything Maya Angelou says or writes makes me cry....
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05:12 PM on 12/08/2010
To fear something you have chosen to call Wikileaks proves the need for Wikileaks.
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