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Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Words are just words.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.