I Write Quotes

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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.… — Amy Tan
I type in one place, but I write all over the house. — Toni Morrison
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. — Georges Simenon
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I… — David Guterson
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary

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