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There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.”

— John Fowles

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely,…

— Italo Calvino

“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy…

— Anne Lamott

“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic: born in…

— W.H. Auden

“My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He wrote and kept reading aloud what was written, while Vasilisa considered what she ought to write: how great had been their want the…

— Anton Chekhov

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

— Anthony Trollope

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you…

— Gore Vidal

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.An author…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

— Theodore Dreiser

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price.…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald