I Write Quotes

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I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing,… — Ashwin Sanghi
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is… — Colm Toibin
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. — Kurt Vonnegut
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. — Margaret Atwood
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… — M.F.K. Fisher
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… — Erica Jong
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and… — Franz Kafka
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. — Dodie Smith
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. — C.S. Lewis
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… — Aaron Sorkin
I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love. — Saint Augustine
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it… — Philip Roth
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people.… — Franz Kafka
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. — William Butler Yeats
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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